Raw Craft With Anthony Bourdain - Episode Five: Arion Press

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Anthony Bourdain & The Balvenie head to San Francisco, California to meet with Andrew Hoyem, master typographer and printer of Arion Press. One of the last of its kind, Arion Press has only a handful of members on its staff, all fellow craftsmen dedicated to this age old process. Each works meticulously to create the books in multiple parts, from the typecasters, to the proofreaders, to the printers and the bookbinders. All of these hands build a work of art through a process that must be seen to be believed, and can only, truly, be described as magic.

The Balvenie Distillery alliance with craft is a result of the brand’s choice to embrace the old way. Balvenie is dedicated to the process of using the five rare crafts of Scotch whisky making to create The Balvenie’s distinctive taste and exceptional quality. It is the only distillery that still grows its own barley, malts in its own traditional malting floor, employs coopers to tend every cask, a coppersmith to maintain the stills and a malt master to ensure the resulting spirit is consistently excellent.

Warehouse 24 offers its members access to exclusive events, early notice of new product releases and insight & knowledge from The Balvenie’s team of craftsmen. Join here: https://us.thebalvenie.com/warehouse24/register.

All parties must be 21+ to follow, like or share. The Balvenie Single Malt Scotch Whisky (c)2015 Imported by William Grant & Sons, Inc. New York, NY.

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Kragar  Sep 16, 2015 • 9:42:20pm
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Damned Architect  Sep 16, 2015 • 9:49:03pm

Anthony Bourdain? Whoo-Hoo!!!

Ok, that’s a little over the top, but I do like him.

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teleskiguy  Sep 16, 2015 • 9:55:08pm

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Jenner7  Sep 16, 2015 • 9:56:04pm

I recommend watching Ahmed on All In with Chris Hayes. He gets a nice surprise at the end of the interview. I was crying as he was telling Chris that those assholes made him feel like a terrorist.

I hope they sue the fuck out of them and win big.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 9:58:06pm
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Jenner7  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:03:13pm

Big winner tonight was Carly Fiorina. I think her numbers will go up, Ben Carson’s will go down, and I think Trump will stay the same. Jeb is just horrible. Huckabee would be a fucking nightmare in the WH.

The thing that stuck out to me was when Ben Carson said he’d like to keep the squeaky clean farm hands to stay and pick our crops. That was very jarring coming from an AA.

I was bored after an hour. That was way too long.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:04:29pm
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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:05:10pm
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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:11:47pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:12:17pm

So… I allowed my “porch monkey” article to be cross-posted at Harry’s Place today, but after seeing the kinds of comments that resulted, I’m thinking I won’t be doing this again.

hurryupharry.org

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Jenner7  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:24:32pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:26:09pm

re: #8 goddamnedfrank

Carly Fiorina obviously knew those images were not in the videos. Like all Republicans, she was simply lying to pander to the extremist anti-choice right.

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austin_blue  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:27:03pm

Night all.

I am so glad I don’t have cable so I didn’t have the opportunity to watch that train wreck.

Not enough brain bleach in the world…

Thanks to all the Lizards who posted the low lights.

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teleskiguy  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:27:18pm

This afternoon on top of Hidden Peak up Little Cottonwood Canyon in Utah.

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teleskiguy  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:37:32pm

re: #12 Charles Johnson

Carly Fiorina obviously knew those images were not in the videos. Like all Republicans, she was simply lying to pander to the extremist anti-choice right.

I’m convinced the Republicans are going all in with abortion politics this election cycle. We’re going to be inundated with Operation Rescue-type propaganda (gory fetus pictures and all) all over the place. The Sunday before the election there will be horrible gory pictures being broadcast in commercials during the NFL games playing. The far-right is doing a good job of mainstreaming awful Operation Rescue-type propaganda.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:39:52pm

re: #14 teleskiguy

Snow in the summer? Global warming my ass.

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teleskiguy  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:43:29pm

re: #16 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Snow in the summer? Global warming my ass.

When I was a teenager I was backpacking with two of my sisters and my BIL through the Flat Tops Wilderness on the Fourth of July. We got caught in a snowstorm the next morning. About four inches fell in just a couple of hours.

Yes, I was in a snowstorm on the Fourth of July almost 20 years ago.

My adage: Stranger Things Have Happened.

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freetoken  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:47:39pm

Discovery of new human ancestor Homo naledi sparks racism row in South Africa

Some prominent South Africans have dismissed the discovery of new human ancestor Homo naledi as a racist theory designed to cast Africans as “subhuman”.

“No-one will dig old monkey bones to back up a theory that I was once a baboon. Sorry,” said Zwelinzima Vavi, former general-secretary of the powerful trade union group Cosatu, which is a faithful ally of the ruling African National Congress (ANC).

Mr Vavi’s comments came after last week’s discovery of Homo naledi, described by scientists as a new distant ancestor of humans.

I am no grandchild of any ape, monkey or baboon — finish en klaar [Afrikaans for ‘that’s it’],” Mr Vavi said on his Twitter account, which is followed by more than 300,000 people.

His comments were backed by the South African Council of Churches (SACC), which was historically involved in the fight against apartheid.

Mr Vavi recalled being a target of racist remarks when South Africa was under apartheid rule: “I been also called a baboon all my life so did my father and his fathers.”

[…]

The discovery of the new ancestor supports the West’s “story that we are subhumans”, ANC member of parliament and former chief whip Mathole Motshekga said.

“That is why today no African is respected anywhere in the world because of this type of theory,” he said in an interview with television network ENCA.

The finding “seems to be calculated to affirm what apartheid and colonialists did to say that we are subhumans who develop from the animal kingdom and therefore gave us the status of subhuman beings to justify slavery, colonialism, oppression and exploitation,” he said.

The SACC added fuel to the controversy.

“To my brother Vavi, I would say that he is spot on,” SACC president Bishop Ziphozihle Siwa said in response to the former Cosatu leader’s comments.

“It’s an insult to say that we come from baboons. We must continue to engage.”

[…]

Ken Ham would approve.

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teleskiguy  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:47:53pm

I have very vivid memories of being in a snowstorm in a wilderness area above 10,000 feet on the Fourth of July. The major landmarks we hiked to were the Chinese Wall, Skinnyfish Lake and McGinnis Lake, where we were pinned down for a few hours because it was snowing so hard.

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freetoken  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:48:39pm

re: #19 teleskiguy

We used to have people around here who would use this summertime snow to try and debunk “Gorebull Warming”.

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teleskiguy  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:51:15pm

re: #20 freetoken

We used to have all kinds of “pleasant” right wingers around here! :-D

Fact of the matter is if the elevation is above 10,000 ft. it can and sometimes will snow all 12 months of the year. Something I learned spending a lifetime in western Colorado.

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darthstar  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:52:47pm

Tsunami advisory - Southern California tomorrow.

google.org

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darthstar  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:53:09pm

8.3 earthquake in Chile.

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freetoken  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:53:16pm

re: #22 darthstar

Big quake off the Chilean coast.

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darthstar  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:53:39pm

re: #22 darthstar

Tsunami advisory - Southern California tomorrow.

google.org

Arrival times and wave heights
Predicted
Catalina Island, CA 0.0m / 0.1ft In 6 hours
Santa Barbara County Central Coa, CA 0.2m / 0.5ft In 6 hours
Los Angeles County Coast includi, CA 0.3m / 1.0ft In 6 hours
Santa Barbara County Mountains, CA 0.1m / 0.3ft In 6 hours
Ventura County Coast, CA 0.1m / 0.5ft In 6 hours
Santa Barbara County South Coast, CA 0.1m / 0.3ft In 6 hours
San Luis Obispo County Interior, CA 0.1m / 0.3ft In 6 hours

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teleskiguy  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:54:02pm

re: #22 darthstar

Dude, I’m wondering about the skiers in Chile. Dav is there, and a lot of others.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:55:18pm
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darthstar  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:55:18pm

More:

A TIDE GAUGE off the shore of Coquimbo, a Chilean seaside city less than 100 miles from the epicenter of tonight’s 8.3 moment magnitude earthquake, has logged wave heights in excess of 14 feet. This comes about 90 minutes after the quake struck at 7:54pm local time.

NOAA’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has predicted wave heights exceeding 36 feet along the Chilean coast, and smaller events elsewhere in the Pacific. Outside of Chile, French Polynesia, a group of over 100 islands in the middle of the south Pacific, is in the most danger. There, NOAA warns of tsunami waves from three to nine feet.

wired.com

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darthstar  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:56:10pm

re: #26 teleskiguy

Dude, I’m wondering about the skiers in Chile. Dav is there, and a lot of others.

One of my friends is in Portillo at a Ski Instructors convention.

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darthstar  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:56:50pm

re: #26 teleskiguy

Dude, I’m wondering about the skiers in Chile. Dav is there, and a lot of others.

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freetoken  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:56:58pm

I see the rightwing talking heads are really pushing Fiorina as the “winner” of the debate.

That she lied about a video is inconsequential.

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teleskiguy  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:57:06pm

re: #29 darthstar

One of my friends is in Portillo at a Ski Instructors convention.

Well, if it’s ski instructors

/not going there

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darthstar  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:58:13pm

re: #32 teleskiguy

Well, if it’s ski instructors

/not going there

I’m hoping he learns how to ski off-piste while he’s there. Such a groomer.

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darthstar  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:59:10pm
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freetoken  Sep 16, 2015 • 11:00:09pm

Apparently there was a question about putting a new image on the $10 bill?

If so, then this would go along with PaleoPat’s whine about erasing white Christian males from our memory, no?

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Kragar  Sep 16, 2015 • 11:01:10pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 16, 2015 • 11:02:29pm

re: #33 darthstar

I’m hoping he learns how to ski off-piste while he’s there. Such a groomer.

Ski instructors, man! The most serious skiers! Hahaha! Everything has to be perfect. A Utopian outlook on life. No way to look at things.

Maybe that’s why I love telemark. Nothing is *ever* perfect (unless it is) and even at my level I’m still going to have bad days, I’m still going to flail spectacularly. It’s never perfect, opposite of a ski instructor where everything is perfect.

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teleskiguy  Sep 16, 2015 • 11:19:22pm

Brother or sister, can you spare 46 mil?

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teleskiguy  Sep 16, 2015 • 11:36:09pm
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goddamnedfrank  Sep 17, 2015 • 12:11:24am
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goddamnedfrank  Sep 17, 2015 • 12:25:36am
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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Sep 17, 2015 • 12:26:52am

re: #10 Charles Johnson

So… I allowed my “porch monkey” article to be cross-posted at Harry’s Place today, but after seeing the kinds of comments that resulted, I’m thinking I won’t be doing this again.

hurryupharry.org

I braved looking at the comments. What I found interesting is how ridiculously easy it was to pick out the individuals who obviously got the ban stick from here, and migrated over to the stalkers.

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Lancelot Link  Sep 17, 2015 • 12:29:43am

EXCLUSIVE!
Backstage footage from the GOP debate
Bobcat Goldthwait Shakes the Clown- Not Funny Diarrhea Club, Fartface

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Kragar  Sep 17, 2015 • 1:55:58am
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Kragar  Sep 17, 2015 • 1:56:26am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 2:05:27am

re: #45 Kragar

GOPDebate was kind of pointless since the Republican target audience of 19th century Americans are dead and don’t watch TV.

not entirely, but they could’ve aired it in black and white….

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 2:16:03am

ICYMI, some heartwarming photos of the people streaming into Europe from Syria, and other wartorn places.

bbc.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 2:24:52am

Ahmed Mohamed plans to switch schools. I hope his new school has no idiot school teachers.

bbc.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 2:29:03am

re: #48 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Ahmed Mohamed plans to switch schools. I hope his new school has no idiot school teachers.

bbc.com

He should be home schooled so that he learns Christian values!

/

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 17, 2015 • 2:58:39am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 3:00:34am

re: #50 goddamnedfrank

You know how I know that Carly Fiorina is a complete hack who never, ever deserved to work in tech? Because when given the opportunity to name a woman to put on the $10 bill, she said nobody instead of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper.

How about Demon Little Bo Peep?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 17, 2015 • 4:23:57am

re: #40 goddamnedfrank

Also, just curious and asking questions but do Carly and the other attack Iran players know that Iran and our new country of Iraq are kind of buddies now?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 4:27:02am

re: #52 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Also, just curious and asking questions but do Carly and the other attack Iran players know that Iran and our new country of Iraq are kind of buddies now?

All they know is that whatever Obama does with regard to either country is bad and must be undone on Day One.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 17, 2015 • 4:48:21am

re: #52 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Also, just curious and asking questions but do Carly and the other attack Iran players know that Iran and our new country of Iraq are kind of buddies now?

I wonder if she is also aware that we wouldn’t be having these problems with Iran if we hadn’t removed the only counter to Iran in the entire Middle East: Saddam Hussein.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Sep 17, 2015 • 4:50:15am

re: #54 Timothy Watson

I wonder if she is also aware that we wouldn’t be having these problems with Iran if we hadn’t removed the only counter to Iran in the entire Middle East: Saddam Hussein.

Conservative foreign policy has been the opposite of forward thinking for as long as I can remember.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 4:56:27am

Welp, last night’s new South Park episode was kinda lame, but I am sure it was better than the GOP debate!

The highlight: a bunch of “PC bros” including Stan’s dad, attack Kyle and paint a bunch of penises on his face using Sharpies.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 17, 2015 • 4:59:24am

I didn’t watch the debate, is there a cheat-sheet of the “important” stuff somewhere?

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Bubblehead II  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:05:38am

re: #57 Timothy Watson

I didn’t watch the debate, is there a cheat-sheet of the “important” stuff somewhere?

The CCN debate in 3 minutes.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:09:07am

re: #58 Bubblehead II

The CCN debate in 3 minutes.

Walker calls Trump an “apprentice”, but wasn’t Walker claiming he wasn’t a “career politician” a couple weeks ago?

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:10:44am
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Bubblehead II  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:11:28am

re: #59 Timothy Watson

Walker calls Trump an “apprentice”, but wasn’t Walker claiming he wasn’t a “career politician” a couple weeks ago?

I can’t remember. They spew so much shit it’s hard to keep track of who said what without a dance card.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:26:44am

I missed the debate but so much borders on parody now.

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aagcobb  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:35:34am

re: #6 Jenner7

Big winner tonight was Carly Fiorina. I think her numbers will go up, Ben Carson’s will go down, and I think Trump will stay the same. Jeb is just horrible. Huckabee would be a fucking nightmare in the WH.

The thing that stuck out to me was when Ben Carson said he’d like to keep the squeaky clean farm hands to stay and pick our crops. That was very jarring coming from an AA.

I was bored after an hour. That was way too long.

Yes, Carly lied in a very smooth, confident manner. That makes her a successful GOP debater.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:35:52am

re: #48 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Ahmed Mohamed plans to switch schools. I hope his new school has no idiot school teachers.

bbc.com

Probably for the best. Hope he gets treated better at his new school.

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wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:40:03am

Meet breakfast:

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lawhawk  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:44:04am

re: #56 The Vicious Babushka

Was at the Met game, and while they lost 6-0, it was more entertaining. There was some good defense, some good pitching (by the Marlins), and was in good company.

Tweeted through much of the debate though.

That you’ve got 2 failed business leaders leading this pack of clowns shows how debased things are. Trump bankrupted his companies 4 times - he’s so great at negotiating that he couldn’t manage to avoid bankruptcy after the first time??

Carly’s record is perhaps even worse. Accounting gimmicks helped ruin Lucent after she left, and then decided to double down with HP. Oversaw an ill conceived merger with Compaq that left the combined company in a worse position, and then sought out an aquisition of a company for billions more than anyone thought it was worth - but the Board thankfully knocked that one back.

The kicker? IBM picked up the company for pennies on the dollar of the valuation that Carly considered. Yeah, that’s some awesome business acumen.

So, it’s no wonder that she’s a media darling for the right at the present, talking all manner of nonsense about taxes and how to grow the economy. It’s all trickle down all the time. That’s not an economic policy. It’s a rerun of the same failed policies that the GOP has trotted out for over a generation now with the same results - higher deficits and not as much economic growth (mostly because the benefits accrue in those most able to afford tax hikes, while the tax burdens get shifted to those least able to afford them).

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Belafon  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:45:56am

#41 goddamnedfrank:

Though, in fairness to Jackson, that’s one more woman than existed in any of the books.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:47:05am

If and I do think the Republicans won’t regain the WH in 2016, it hurts my head thinking about what 2020’s bunch will be like.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:48:31am

re: #66 lawhawk

Was at the Met game, and while they lost 6-0, it was more entertaining. There was some good defense, some good pitching (by the Marlins), and was in good company.

Tweeted through much of the debate though.

That you’ve got 2 failed business leaders leading this pack of clowns shows how debased things are. Trump bankrupted his companies 4 times - he’s so great at negotiating that he couldn’t manage to avoid bankruptcy after the first time??

Carly’s record is perhaps even worse. Accounting gimmicks helped ruin Lucent after she left, and then decided to double down with HP. Oversaw an ill conceived merger with Compaq that left the combined company in a worse position, and then sought out an aquisition of a company for billions more than anyone thought it was worth - but the Board thankfully knocked that one back.

The kicker? IBM picked up the company for pennies on the dollar of the valuation that Carly considered. Yeah, that’s some awesome business acumen.

So, it’s no wonder that she’s a media darling for the right at the present, talking all manner of nonsense about taxes and how to grow the economy. It’s all trickle down all the time. That’s not an economic policy. It’s a rerun of the same failed policies that the GOP has trotted out for over a generation now with the same results - higher deficits and not as much economic growth (mostly because the benefits accrue in those most able to afford tax hikes, while the tax burdens get shifted to those least able to afford them).

Plus Carly ran for Senator in CA and lost. What does she bring to the table?

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Belafon  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:48:47am

Mark Davis, a local conservative radio guy, was on the local fox station this morning (it gets a lot of audience because it’s the only one that stays on after seven). I caught him talking, and he said that while Ahmed Mohamed was wrongly targeted, what he was really angry about was the knee-jerk reaction. Not, mind you, that of the teacher, principal, and police, but the people online, like the president and those at NASA and all those technology companies.

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wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:50:23am

re: #70 Belafon

Mark Davis, a local conservative radio guy, was on the local fox station this morning (it gets a lot of audience because it’s the only one that stays on after seven). I caught him talking, and he said that while Ahmed Mohamed was wrongly targeted, what he was really angry about was the knee-jerk reaction. Not, mind you, that of the teacher, principal, and police, but the people online, like the president and those at NASA and all those technology companies.

I can’t help it. My knee always reacts to jerks.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 5:59:51am

re: #69 Iwouldprefernotto

Plus Carly ran for Senator in CA and lost. What does she bring to the table?

That’s what I want to know about Carson, age requirement aside, he really is no more qualified for the job than I or any of us are. Being a success in one field doesn’t mean you’re qualified for another totally different one. Just because I’m great at history doesn’t mean I’m qualified to teach physics.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:00:59am

re: #70 Belafon

Mark Davis, a local conservative radio guy, was on the local fox station this morning (it gets a lot of audience because it’s the only one that stays on after seven). I caught him talking, and he said that while Ahmed Mohamed was wrongly targeted, what he was really angry about was the knee-jerk reaction. Not, mind you, that of the teacher, principal, and police, but the people online, like the president and those at NASA and all those technology companies.

Yeah how dare they reach out to the kid? I swear man. These people have something very wrong with them.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:03:17am

re: #72 HappyWarrior

That’s what I want to know about Carson, age requirement aside, he really is no more qualified for the job than I or any of us are. Being a success in one field doesn’t mean you’re qualified for another totally different one. Just because I’m great at history doesn’t mean I’m qualified to teach physics.

Carson is no more qualified to be POTUS than Mozart was to be a financial manager

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:05:30am

re: #74 The Vicious Babushka

Carson is no more qualified to be POTUS than Mozart was to be a financial manager

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Precisely. I mean Carson is obviously good at his job but he spews nothing but ignorance on politics.

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lawhawk  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:06:14am

re: #75 HappyWarrior

That ignorance gives him a 10 point bump in the polls. /half

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:06:47am

re: #75 HappyWarrior

Precisely. I mean Carson is obviously good at his job but he spews nothing but ignorance on politics.

Carson is breathtakingly stupid about everything that is not separating conjoined twins.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:09:38am

re: #77 The Vicious Babushka

Carson is breathtakingly stupid about everything that is not separating conjoined twins.

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Yep, they barely noticed skin color. Well unless you wanted to use their water fountain, or sit at their lunch counter, or sit in the front of the bus, or go to their schools, or use their restrooms, or …

Yep, no notice of skin color.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:09:44am

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY, “MATH IS HARD”==>
I thought there were supposed to be 93 MILLION UNEMPLOYED?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:10:03am

re: #77 The Vicious Babushka

Carson is breathtakingly stupid about everything that is not separating conjoined twins.

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I think this exact quote hasn’t been proven but that Carson could visit the Holocaust Museum and say it reinforced his beliefs about 2015 America being like Nazi Germany tells me this man is very stupid and ignorant.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:11:10am

re: #80 HappyWarrior

I think this exact quote hasn’t been proven but that Carson could visit the Holocaust Museum and say it reinforced his beliefs about 2015 America being like Nazi Germany tells me this man is very stupid and ignorant.

Yeah he did say America is just like Nazi Germany, as well as Obamacare is just like slavery.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:14:28am

Even Breitbart is upset by Ann Coulter’s insane Tweet.

Donotlinked. I did not read the comments.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:15:30am

re: #81 The Vicious Babushka

Yeah he did say America is just like Nazi Germany, as well as Obamacare is just like slavery.

Yeah he did and he said the other day that Obama’s ideology comes from Mein Kempf but don’t say you’re ashamed to be from the same state as W Bush. //

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Timothy Watson  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:19:02am

re: #82 The Vicious Babushka

Even Breitbart is upset by Ann Coulter’s insane Tweet.

Donotlinked. I did not read the comments.

Wait…Ann Coulter actually had a valid point about something? Did I wake up in an alternate reality?

And it’s one of the things I like about - and in fact, I think they’re probably pandering, which was the subsequent tweet — they’re probably pandering to evangelicals, not Jews. But it’s just pandering, pandering, pandering — something we all agree on. It’s not really separating the candidates.

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Romantic Heretic  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:20:55am

re: #65 wrenchwench

Meet breakfast:

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I wish I looked that cheerful first thing in the morning.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:24:18am

re: #63 aagcobb

Yes, Carly lied in a very smooth, confident manner. That makes her a successful political GOP debater.

Corrected. Engaging in a political debate requires the ability to lie with confidence Which party you’re in doesn’t change that.

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Great White Snark  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:25:18am

Morning after the debate thought.

Could we get new carpet and a sanitizing crew like they use on cruise ships when illness breaks out? I mean lots of people don’t like Reagan but that is was a nice clean place to enjoy & learn a little history. Now? Call Coit.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:30:13am

re: #84 Timothy Watson

Wait…Ann Coulter actually had a valid point about something? Did I wake up in an alternate reality?

She may have had a point there, but she expressed it with an ugly tweet, whose text I have copied:

“How many f—-ing Jews do these people think there are in the United States?”

If she’d said that as part of a larger point on Real Time with Bill Maher then it would have been acceptable, since it would have been followed by her main point. But to put that sentence out as a Tweet is asking for trouble, since Tweets are liable to be taken as stand-alone statements.

The flaws of Twitter can even bite the haters.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:33:26am

sigh

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aagcobb  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:35:10am

re: #77 The Vicious Babushka

Carson is breathtakingly stupid about everything that is not separating conjoined twins.

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To be fair, we discussed this quote a couple of days ago and there are serious doubts that Carson actually said this. Not to say he hasn’t said a lot of stupid, insane shit, like Obamacare is the worse thing since slavery.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:36:32am

re: #90 aagcobb

To be fair, we discussed this quote a couple of days ago and there are serious doubts that Carson actually said this. Not to say he hasn’t said a lot of stupid, insane shit, like Obamacare is the worse thing since slavery.

Already covered. But yes Carson’s actual quotes have stuff that is just as bad as that.

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lawhawk  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:37:05am

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

Think that’s the congregation that a colleague’s family belongs to. Ugh.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:37:38am

Ben thinks Ann Coulter is just swell, so he’s cool with her uncorking a racist tweet==>

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:38:12am

Her point is valid about the candidates bringing up Israel to pander to the Evangelicals but the first tweet was very nasty and unnecessary- how many fucking Jews are there? The other thing that amuses me is Coulter acting like this is something new. That’s all these candidates do is pander to the evangelicals. That this surprises Ann astounds me but then again Ann is a racist.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:38:45am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:39:11am

re: #93 The Vicious Babushka

Ben thinks Ann Coulter is just swell, so he’s cool with her uncorking a racist tweet==>

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Good to know that King I decide who is a real Jew and supporter of Israel is on the case.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:39:35am

Ann Coulter is not “super pro Israel” Ben you fucking little tool.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:39:44am

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ve been to the LIC. It’s a nice place, with nice people. Most of the officers of the LIC are medical doctors. And it’s in the East End, which is supposedly safe from violent crime. Y’know, upper middle class folks.

This really sickens me.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:39:45am

re: #86 Dark_Falcon

Corrected. Engaging in a political debate requires the ability to lie with confidence Which party you’re in doesn’t change that.

That may well be but the lies about PP by your party’s candidates need to stop.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:40:23am

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Assholes sigh.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:41:36am

Did any of the GOP candidates show support for Ahmed on social media?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:42:23am

re: #101 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Did any of the GOP candidates show support for Ahmed on social media?

I don’t know. I very much doubt it though.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:43:07am

Yesterday I went to Ford Field Park in Dearborn to say the Tashlich prayer.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:43:13am

re: #101 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Did any of the GOP candidates show support for Ahmed on social media?

You’re kidding, right?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:43:29am
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aagcobb  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:43:54am

re: #95 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

the requirements for the “hoax bomb” is ridiculous
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Video
Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd discusses MacArthur High freshman Ahmed Mohamed’s arrest

Possessing a clock while Muslim is suspicious, therefore he had to be handcuffed and arrested for his own safety!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:44:32am

re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That’s why the first thing I do after picking up the iPod touch I use to scan receipts is to pick up a cup. Doesn’t hurt that the coffee machine is right next to the fridge where I put my lunch.

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aagcobb  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:45:29am

re: #86 Dark_Falcon

Corrected. Engaging in a political debate requires the ability to lie with confidence Which party you’re in doesn’t change that.

Sorry, DF, but the GOP is so disconnected from reality that GOP politicians have to lie about virtually everything, whereas Democrats can talk about real issues.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:46:07am

re: #99 HappyWarrior

That may well be but the lies about PP by your party’s candidates need to stop.

They won’t, not unless the “Center for Medical Progress” can be discredited in the eyes of the party base.

My own take is tat I’d rather aborted fetuses were used for medical research as opposed to simply being incinerated. They’d be aborted anyways, might as well get some use from the remains.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:46:14am

re: #86 Dark_Falcon

Corrected. Engaging in a political debate requires the ability to lie with confidence Which party you’re in doesn’t change that.

Carly said she wanted every woman to lived the live she chooses —but doesn’t support reproductive health care.

A woman so out-of-touch with average woman has no chance with women voters.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:46:56am

re: #104 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

You’re kidding, right?

just checking

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:47:05am

re: #109 Dark_Falcon

They won’t, not unless the “Center for Medical Progress” can be discredited in the eyes of the party base.

My own take is tat I’d rather aborted fetuses were used for medical research as opposed to simply being incinerated. They’d be aborted anyways, might as well get some use from the remains.

Your party’s leadership could you know act like leaders?

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:47:28am

re: #106 aagcobb

Possessing a clock while Muslim is suspicious, therefore he had to be handcuffed and arrested for his own safety!

and interrogated without a parent, attorney or advocate.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:48:20am

re: #103 The Vicious Babushka

Yesterday I went to Ford Field Park in Dearborn to say the Tashlich prayer.

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But Fox News said that Dearborn was a No-Go Zone for Jews because of all the Muslims living there!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:48:27am

re: #113 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

and interrogated without a parent, attorney or advocate.

Yeah, the family’s lawyer is going to build a case around that, for sure.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:48:32am

re: #108 aagcobb

Sorry, DF, but the GOP is so disconnected from reality that GOP politicians have to lie about virtually everything, whereas Democrats can talk about real issues.

I mean Democrats lie too. I would be a blind partisan if I said otherwise but the extent at which GOP cnaidates lie is just ridiculous. Tell me DF, why did Senator Graham have to say that Iran was behind 9/11? He knows this isn’t true at all and that in fact Al Queda has as much love for the Shi’a Islamic Republic of Iran as we do. I mean there’s lying and there’s outright lying.

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Reality Based Steve  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:49:12am

The debates are like a baseball game, a lot of scratching, spitting and the occasional action. When I lived in Tacoma, the local station would carry a re-broadcast of the Mariners games later in the evening.

They would edit out everything except actual pitches and plays, so that an entire game fit into about 40 minutes or so (IIRC). Maybe we need something like that. Your condensed GOP Debate. (Pretty much be “ALIENS!!! MUSLIMS!!!! DID TOO!!!! DID NOT!!!!)

RBS

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:49:19am

re: #115 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Yeah, the family’s lawyer is going to build a case around that, for sure.

It’s things like this that made me want to get my paralegal certificate. Still no work at a firm yet but it’s exactly why I took the course so I could help families like Ahmed’s.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:49:54am

re: #112 HappyWarrior

Your party’s leadership could you know act like leaders?

You can’t lead people in a direction they aren’t willing to go in.

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Reality Based Steve  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:50:44am

Well, I’m out for my morning coffee, flirt with the cute barista and then to the shop. Be good, and do good things today.

RBS

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aagcobb  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:50:46am

re: #117 Reality Based Steve

The debates are like a baseball game, a lot of scratching, spitting and the occasional action. When I lived in Tacoma, the local station would carry a re-broadcast of the Mariners games later in the evening.

They would edit out everything except actual pitches and plays, so that an entire game fit into about 40 minutes or so (IIRC). Maybe we need something like that. Your condensed GOP Debate. (Pretty much be “ALIENS!!! MUSLIMS!!!! DID TOO!!!! DID NOT!!!!)

RBS

Yes, we didn’t need the time wasting answers about who to put on the $10 bill or what their ss code name would be. What a waste of time.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:52:02am

re: #119 Dark_Falcon

You can’t lead people in a direction they aren’t willing to go in.

Well I’ll give you an example using your own party in the past but when McCarthy was pulling his shit in the 50’s insulting genuine American heroes like General Marshall, you know what Ike and a lot other Republicans did, they worked to bring him down despite the fact that McCarthy was very popular with the GOP base. Why can’t they do that now? As I got at, your party’s leaders are spineless weasels, that’s one point I agree with the TP nuts on albeit for radically different reasons than they do.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:52:38am

re: #118 HappyWarrior

It’s things like this that made me want to get my paralegal certificate. Still no work at a firm yet but it’s exactly why I took the course so I could help families like Ahmed’s.

really, a CASA volunteer or even a social worker would be able to do it. Just to make sure the child is treated with respect and is not made to feel “less than”.

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aagcobb  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:52:42am

re: #119 Dark_Falcon

You can’t lead people in a direction they aren’t willing to go in.

True, but you can plant a seed and maybe something good will come out of it. Rand Paul and John Kasich told some truth about foreign relations which might bear fruit someday even if it does hurt them in the primary.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:52:52am

re: #121 aagcobb

Yes, we didn’t need the time wasting answers about who to put on the $10 bill or what their ss code name would be. What a waste of time.

I’m still chuckling over the idea of putting Maggie Thatcher on the $10 bill.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:53:23am

re: #93 The Vicious Babushka

Ben thinks Ann Coulter is just swell, so he’s cool with her uncorking a racist tweet==>

tweets re: Jews awful, nonsensical. @anncoulter is also super pro-Israel, and has always been so, so I won’t lose sleep.

A pro-Israel anti-Semite is no contradiction in terms when you see it in terms of Israel’s role in fulfilling Fundamentalist Christian End Times prophecy.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:53:24am

re: #125 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’m still chuckling over the idea of putting Maggie Thatcher on the $10 bill.

that was a definite fail. There is probably a joke that could tie in his past of smoking weed with that answer.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:53:36am

re: #123 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

really, a CASA volunteer or even a social worker would be able to do it. Just to make sure the child is treated with respect and is not made to feel “less than”.

Right.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:54:04am

re: #125 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’m still chuckling over the idea of putting Maggie Thatcher on the $10 bill.

I am too. Jeb couldn’t think of one American woman? La-me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:54:40am

re: #113 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

and interrogated without a parent, attorney or advocate.

But that clock was still ticking…lives could’ve been at stake!!!

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aagcobb  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:55:04am

re: #127 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

that was a definite fail.

Another example of pandering to the Base. To rwnj, Reagan and Thatcher are 20th century giants comparable to FDR and Churchill for normal people.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:55:10am
My choice for the $20 bill — including the quote
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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:55:22am

re: #124 aagcobb

True, but you can plant a seed and maybe something good will come out of it. Rand Paul and John Kasich told some truth about foreign relations which might bear fruit someday even if it does hurt them in the primary.

Right and sometimes you need to say what needs to be said even if it’s unpopular. I am sorry but the GOP rank and file not wanting to believe the PP videos are bullshit and that’s why the leadership won’t call it out and in fact will continue to pander to the lies about PP is a really lame excuse and frankly DF I think you know this.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:55:46am

Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation:

Tuition there is $54,500 for boarding students.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:56:06am

re: #132 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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There’s so many good choices. I think Harriett Tubman would be a great choice but there’s been so many great American women. Abigail is a great choice too.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:56:18am

re: #133 HappyWarrior

Right and sometimes you need to say what needs to be said even if it’s unpopular. I am sorry but the GOP rank and file not wanting to believe the PP videos are bullshit and that’s why the leadership won’t call it out and in fact will continue to pander to the lies about PP is a really lame excuse and frankly DF I think you know this.

I was surprised Carson came out in favor of vaccines. They seem to be pandering to the lowest-common denominator of wingnut.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:56:46am

re: #132 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Well, if we’re going to put a Brit’s face on our currency, it ought to be Queen Elizabeth II.
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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:57:05am

re: #136 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

I was surprised Carson came out in favor of vaccines. They seem to be pandering to the lowest-common denominator of wingnut.

That’s how they lead but I too was surprised that Carson had a stopped clock moment. I mean I know he’s a doctor but that hasn’t stopped Paul from spreading anti-vax fear.

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aagcobb  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:57:29am

re: #136 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

I was surprised Carson came out in favor of vaccines. They seem to be pandering to the lowest-common denominator of wingnut.

Carson did pander to the notion that vaccines should be more spread out, which leaves infants vulnerable longer than necessary.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:57:52am

re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth

Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation:

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Tuition there is $54,500 for boarding students.

young man is going to come-out of this with a great education. we have the Illinois Math and Science Academy, I’m sure there is a Texas version that would love to have him.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:57:53am

re: #137 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Well, if we’re going to put a Brit’s face on our currency, it ought to be Queen Elizabeth II.
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How about Queen Boudica? More of a bad ass than Thatcher too.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 6:59:22am

re: #139 aagcobb

Carson did pander to the notion that vaccines should be more spread out, which leaves infants vulnerable longer than necessary.

So many kids in day-care — it would be nice if they all got them as soon as possible. I know some parents with auto-immune disorders wait for their kids to vaccinated — there are individuals who legitimately are at risk, but they are few —and should have to have a doctors waiver.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:00:20am

re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth

Y’know, reading about the public reaction to Ahmed’s arrest and the heartfelt European response to the plight of the refugees reminds me that everyday people are doing what our governments seem incapable of or unwilling to do — take care of injustice and help our fellow human beings.

Eisenhower said something to that effect.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:00:47am

re: #141 HappyWarrior

How about Queen Boudica? More of a bad ass than Thatcher too.

Vashti McCollum

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:01:30am

Vaccines aren’t only good for your kids but they’re good for other people’s kids. Ya know, my brother bought the anti-vax crap stuff or a little while but it all changed when he had a daughter and went to Tanzania and Kenya. It’d be nice if a medical professional like Paul or Carson pointed out that by refusing to vaccinate yourself, you put others in danger.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:01:58am
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:02:03am

re: #143 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Y’know, reading about the public reaction to Ahmed’s arrest and the heartfelt European response to the plight of the refugees reminds me that everyday people are doing what our governments seem incapable of or unwilling to do — take care of injustice and help our fellow human beings.

Eisenhower said something to that effect.

the problem is that the GOP seems to think that that is how it should be done. Government has no role in such things. Perhaps in times past, but our Global world demands the oversight and administration of services that only a government can provide.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:02:50am

re: #137 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Well, if we’re going to put a Brit’s face on our currency, it ought to be Queen Elizabeth II.
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It should be King George III for being so looney that he could not hold on to us.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:03:04am

re: #144 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Vashti McCollum

Odd, link doesn’t work.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:04:35am

Vaccines: That thing that makes sure you don’t get that thing FDR got and that you haven’t got. I really sadly think anti-vaccine attitudes are a result of modernity and that we take the fact that we no longer see people die from things like smallpox or polio for granted.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:05:48am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:06:51am

re: #150 HappyWarrior

Vaccines: That thing that makes sure you don’t get that thing FDR got and that you haven’t got. I really sadly think anti-vaccine attitudes are a result of modernity and that we take the fact that we no longer see people die from things like smallpox or polio for granted.

It is an odd convergence of anti-Western medicine, anti-big pharma moonbats and anti-big government, anti-science wingnuts. Combine the two and you reach toxic, even deadly levels of derp.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:07:00am

re: #147 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

the problem is that the GOP seems to think that that is how it should be done. Government has no role in such things. Perhaps in times past, but our Global world demands the oversight and administration of services that only a government can provide.

Indeed, which is why the situation in Europe is so bad. There was no preparation or immediate joint response to the refugee influx. Each nation handled the problem on its own, so we’ve got Hungary shutting people out, and hindering those people from getting to nations that will help them.

And even those national governments have little in place to deal with the people they accept. It’s local people who are taking up the slack. I’m not saying that’s a good thing, but it does show that regular people can do the right thing while their governments are paralyzed with bureaucratic red tape.

Sadly, regular people can also do the wrong thing, which we’ve seen plenty of all over the place lately.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:07:26am

think the part of money will take notice?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:08:33am

re: #153 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Indeed, which is why the situation in Europe is so bad. There was no preparation or immediate joint response to the refugee influx. Each nation handled the problem on its own, so we’ve got Hungary shutting people out, and hindering those people from getting to nations that will help them.

And even those national governments have little in place to deal with the people they accept. It’s local people who are taking up the slack. I’m not saying that’s a good thing, but it does show that regular people can do the right thing while their governments are paralyzed with bureaucratic red tape.

Sadly, regular people can also do the wrong thing, which we’ve seen plenty of all over the place lately.

Still, at least in Germany, most people’s rage and indignation is directed at the politicians and bureaucrats who failed, not at the victims of war and injustice.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:08:53am

re: #149 HappyWarrior

Odd, link doesn’t work.

TRY AGAIN

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:09:16am

re: #156 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

TRY AGAIN

Yes, thanks.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:09:58am

re: #146 Backwoods_Sleuth

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:10:50am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Still, at least in Germany, most people’s rage and indignation is directed at the politicians and bureaucrats who failed, not at the victims of war and injustice.

It’s happened in France, too. Hollande called on the nation to welcome anyone seeking asylum, because it’s part of the French soul, he said.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:11:26am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:12:43am

re: #159 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It’s happened in France, too. Hollande called on the nation to welcome anyone seeking asylum, because it’s part of the French soul, he said.

I was talking about this with Doc Lizardo yesterday but the Croatian PM has had a welcoming attitude to asylum seekers too. He specifically criticized the Hungarian PM as well for his nativist views. That was a pleasant surprise knowing the former Yugoslavia’s conflicts between Muslims, Orthodox, and Catholics.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:12:53am

My nominations for Women Whose Picture Should Be On The Moneys==>

Eleanor Roosevelt
Frances Perkins
Jeanette Rankin
Margaret Chase Smith
Adm. Grace Hopper
Sally Ride

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:13:06am

re: #160 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:13:57am

re: #162 HappyWarrior

I was talking about this with Doc Lizardo yesterday but the Croatian PM has had a welcoming attitude to asylum seekers too. He specifically criticized the Hungarian PM as well for his nativist views. That was a pleasant surprise knowing the former Yugoslavia’s conflicts between Muslims, Orthodox, and Catholics.

The Serbs have also been pretty chill about it, and seem quite disheartened that more migrants don’t want to stay in Serbia.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:14:31am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:14:45am

Mother Jones to throw out another name. But really there’s lots of names we’ll miss because well women are half the population.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:15:09am

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:15:51am

re: #165 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The Serbs have also been pretty chill about it, and seem quite disheartened that more migrants don’t want to stay in Serbia.

That’s good to hear regarding the Serbs. I’ll have to point that out if Tardis ever goes on another anti-Serb rant again.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:15:51am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:16:04am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:16:08am

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

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sigh

Poor persecuted christians.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:16:29am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I am so sorry.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:16:54am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:17:19am

re: #166 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Mike Huckabee is an Awful Human Being and Needs to Go

He really is I think the face of why I will never vote or even think about voting Republican anywhere again.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:18:42am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

{{{BWS}}}

Keeping you in our thoughts here at Casa klys.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:18:45am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:21:30am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:21:35am
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:21:38am

bbl

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:23:18am

re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Jindal always wastes no opportunity to show the country that he’s a miserable human being that would deport his own mom and dad.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:24:08am

re: #125 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’m still chuckling over the idea of putting Maggie Thatcher on the $10 bill.

Martha Washington was the first (and only) female on a US monetary note. So whomever gets on the $10 won’t be the first.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:25:06am
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Dark_Falcon  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:26:36am

re: #141 HappyWarrior

How about Queen Boudica? More of a bad ass than Thatcher too.

No, it would have to be a winner and her warriors came up short against the legions of Rome in the final battle.

Actually, that a good example of what I was saying earlier: Boudica likely would not have fought an intact Roman force on open but constricted ground had she had her choice, but the force she lead was composed of men who considered the idea of a numerically superior force avoiding a battle one day in one place to fight on more favorable ground later to be cowardice. Had she tried to lead her warriors away from the Romans many would not have followed her.

So Boudica had to send her men into just the sort of battle the Roman Legion heavy infantry were equipped and trained to fight. The Britons lost the battle of Wattling Street due to their not being able to understand their foe.

Which is another reason I don’t want Donald Trump as president: He does not understand America’s enemies.

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Franklin  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:27:39am

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ha!

Saw this on his TL as well, saw something posted yesterday along the same lines:

Arab-looking man of Syrian descent found in garage building what looks like a bomb

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:28:24am

re: #184 Dark_Falcon

No, it would have to be a winner and her warriors came up short against the legions of Rome in the final battle.

Actually, that a good example of what I was saying earlier: Boudica likely would not have fought an intact Roman force on open but constricted ground had she had her choice, but the force she lead was composed of men who considered the idea of a numerically superior force avoiding a battle one day in one place to fight on more favorable ground later to be cowardice. Had she tried to lead her warriors away from the Romans many would not have followed her.

So Boudica had to send her men into just the sort of battle the Roman Legion heavy infantry were equipped and trained to fight. The Britons lost the battle of Wattling Street due to their not being able to understand their foe.

Which is another reason I don’t want Donald Trump as president: He does not understand America’s enemies.

Calm it profsesor heh. I actually don’t know a ton about her just that she was stood against the Romans.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:29:43am

re: #163 The Vicious Babushka

My nominations for Women Whose Picture Should Be On The Moneys==>

Eleanor Roosevelt
Frances Perkins
Jeanette Rankin
Margaret Chase Smith
Adm. Grace Hopper
Sally Ride

That’s a pretty good list, VB.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:30:31am

re: #186 HappyWarrior

Calm it profsesor heh. I actually don’t know a ton about her just that she was stood against the Romans.

I’m calm, I just love this stuff.

BBL

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:30:45am

Chinese rail firms partner with American firms to build high speed rail line linking LA and Las Vegas.

bbc.com

If they can pull this off, it will be amazing. Just getting the right of way for a HSR line will be a challenge. The engineering, given how quickly China has built out its HSR in just a few years, will be a cinch by comparison.

My city here in China will likely have a HSR connection by next year sometime.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:31:06am

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Go “home.” Seriously though, there have been Arab immigrants to this country from oru start.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:31:35am

re: #188 Dark_Falcon

I’m calm, I just love this stuff.

BBL

God dude I am just teasing you for how you sound like a professor at times. You know your shit though.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:32:28am

re: #189 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Chinese rail firms partner with American firms to build high speed rail line linking LA and Las Vegas.

bbc.com

If they can pull this off, it will be amazing. Just getting the right of way for a HSR line will be a challenge. The engineering, given how quickly China has built out its HSR in just a few years, will be a cinch by comparison.

My city here in China will likely have a HSR connection by next year sometime.

I’d love it if we would invest in HSR nation wide.

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aagcobb  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:33:49am

re: #192 HappyWarrior

I’d love it if we would invest in HSR nation wide.

it would make sense for the Northeast corridor, but most of the country doesn’t have the population density sufficient to justify the expense.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:34:01am

Not that I care about athletes and who they endorse but does Tom Brady know that the man he’s supporting for president thinks his son shouldn’t be a US citizenship. I mean not that jocks are known for being particularly smart but that one should deflate his balls some.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:34:44am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:34:59am

re: #193 aagcobb

it would make sense for the Northeast corridor, but most of the country doesn’t have the population density sufficient to justify the expense.

True that, we do differ from Europe in that respect. But yeah the Northeast. I’d love that. I’d probably travel a lot more if that happened.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:35:55am

re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:43:08am

re: #196 HappyWarrior

True that, we do differ from Europe in that respect. But yeah the Northeast. I’d love that. I’d probably travel a lot more if that happened.

Once HSR rail comes to my city here, I could be at the Changsha airport in four hours instead of six, or I could take HSR directly to Shanghai (for international flights) in maybe eight or nine. HSR tickets in China are usually slightly less than airfares, for an added benefit.

China’s been able to build out quickly because all the land is owned by the government. When you buy a house or a piece of property, ownership is only for 70 years max, and the government can take that land back at any time. Residents are reimbursed for the loss of their homes, but as in America, it’s always less than the “market value” of the property.

It’s like super-eminent domain. Building out HSR in the USA would be much more complex, and politically a losing proposition if the government began using eminent domain to acquire rights of way.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:43:29am

re: #193 aagcobb

it would make sense for the Northeast corridor, but most of the country doesn’t have the population density sufficient to justify the expense.

It also makes sense over longer distances with fewer stops.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:44:40am

Time for us to pack up and head out on the actual vacation and not just the work portion.

Be good to one another, Lizards. Back next Sunday!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:44:48am

I’ll see you all later. Sack time.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:45:35am

re: #198 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Once HSR rail comes to my city here, I could be at the Changsha airport in four hours instead of six, or I could take HSR directly to Shanghai (for international flights) in maybe eight or nine. HSR tickets in China are usually slightly less than airfares, for an added benefit.

China’s been able to build out quickly because all the land is owned by the government. When you buy a house or a piece of property, ownership is only for 70 years max, and the government can take that land back at any time. Residents are reimbursed for the loss of their homes, but as in America, it’s always less than the “market value” of the property.

It’s like super-eminent domain. Building out HSR in the USA would be much more complex, and politically a losing proposition if the government began using eminent domain to acquire rights of way.

Yeah China’s a different animal. I do wonder though- what about the European rail systems? Like when I was in Spain, I used rail from city to city with much more ease than I would here.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:45:51am

re: #200 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Time for us to pack up and head out on the actual vacation and not just the work portion.

Be good to one another, Lizards. Back next Sunday!

Have a good vacation.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:46:30am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:47:30am

re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:47:36am

re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I want to see the people behind this idiocy really hung out to dry.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:48:18am

re: #206 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I want to see the people behind this idiocy really hung out to dry.

Unlikely with Irving’s mayor believing there’s a Shariah monster underneath the bed.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:51:53am

You know that “Fake Memory Syndrome” that caused a lot of people to believe that they watched JFK get assassinated on live TV?

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:52:09am

re: #150 HappyWarrior

Vaccines: That thing that makes sure you don’t get that thing FDR got and that you haven’t got. I really sadly think anti-vaccine attitudes are a result of modernity and that we take the fact that we no longer see people die from things like smallpox or polio for granted.

Unionization suffers for similar reasons. Striking workers were killed or wounded in the struggle for the things, like a forty hour week, that we take for granted. Now the attitude is that unions are unnecessary and coercive. The decades long campaign to discredit unionization is paying off.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:53:56am

Yes, that works too. In that respect, I’m a lucky man. My father’s father was a lifer at the NLRB and my mom’s parents were both the children of UMW members who never forgot how hard their fathers and the other miners worked for their rights. Sorrry that was meant for Higgs post regarding people taking unionization rights for granted.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Sep 17, 2015 • 7:55:50am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:05:56am

So, I’m at work but what’s this Fiorina line that the MSM is gushing over her for?

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lawhawk  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:11:12am

re: #154 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

think the part of money will take notice?

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NO. They wont.

Vaccinations are a cost saver too. Health insurance coverage is a cost saver. But the GOP stands in support of exempting people from vaccination coverage for religious and personal exemptions; the only exemption that should exist is for medical necessity. Period.

A vaccine that costs a minimal amount can save hundreds or thousands of dollars in medical costs - per vaccine. Preventing measles outbreaks can save public health authorities tens of thousands of dollars in contact tracing, to say nothing of the costs to hospitalize and care for the more seriously afflicted.

And then there’s the HPV vaccine, which can prevent certain kinds of cancers - where the costs per case can really soar. We now have a vaccine can prevent $100,000+ in health care costs for chemo, drugs, radiation, and all the follow up care.

Even with those staggering numbers, the GOP and right wing extremists oppose making Gardisil and similar HPV vaccines mandatory (because sex!). They condemn a new generation to completely avoidable cancer.

Each new vaccine and advance in vaccinations saves lives and reduces health care costs. The GOP stands in opposition to all that.

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ObserverArt  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:13:35am

re: #132 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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Yeah, all men want to be tyrants. Sure uh huh, you know it.

I find a quote and a thought like that damaging to everyone. Have women had a tough time? They sure have, but it wasn’t because of ALL men.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:15:06am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:15:12am

re: #214 ObserverArt

Yeah, all men want to be tyrants. Sure uh huh, you know it.

I find a quote and a thought like that damaging to everyone. Have women had a tough time? They sure have, but it wasn’t because of ALL men.

No, only husbands

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:17:29am

re: #214 ObserverArt

So often I see quotations that seem profound but on examination turn out ridiculous.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:17:50am

re: #213 lawhawk

Of course the GOP has no understanding of economics. :)

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:20:18am

re: #218 Timothy Watson

Of course the GOP has no understanding of economics. :)

The Ryan Plan proved that correct.

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ObserverArt  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:22:24am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Real sorry to hear that Sleuth. Damn. Thinking of you and yours.

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lawhawk  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:26:08am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I am so sorry to hear about this. Having seen all happen to those I love more than I care to admit, my thoughts and prayers to you and yours.

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b_sharp  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:28:10am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

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CleverToad  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:32:26am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

{{Sympathy}}

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A Cranky One  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:32:51am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

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makeitstop  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:37:29am

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:38:30am

re: #207 HappyWarrior

Unlikely with Irving’s mayor believing there’s a Shariah monster underneath the bed.

Which is likely where she comments from…too afraid to leave her under-bed-bunker.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:41:10am

re: #226 WhatEVs

Which is likely where she comments from…to afraid to leave her under-bed-bunker.

Yep. She’s a sorry excuse for a leader.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:43:28am
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Teukka  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:44:12am

re: #226 WhatEVs

Which is likely where she comments from…to afraid to leave her under-bed-bunker.

Is it just me, or has there been a marked increase in islamophobic rhethoric as of late?

Not to mention that the 9/23 stuff appears to be reaching fever pitch…

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ObserverArt  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:44:45am

re: #194 HappyWarrior

Not that I care about athletes and who they endorse but does Tom Brady know that the man he’s supporting for president thinks his son shouldn’t be a US citizenship. I mean not that jocks are known for being particularly smart but that one should deflate his balls some.

No one deflates Tom Brady’s balls!!! No one.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:46:43am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Slap  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:46:45am

Anybody see this yet? What is the world coming to?????

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Shocking!!!!!
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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:46:56am

re: #228 WhatEVs

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Heh I am surprised they got that correct. I totally expect Cruz to one day say “Well I was an actor and then I did commercials for GE, and then I was governor of California.” I obviously jest but these guys are so full of shit.

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ObserverArt  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:47:15am

re: #193 aagcobb

it would make sense for the Northeast corridor, but most of the country doesn’t have the population density sufficient to justify the expense.

Ohio has tried for a long time to get HSR to link the Three Cs…Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. I always hoped to see it some day, but it does not appear I ever will.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:49:52am
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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:50:38am

re: #229 Teukka

Is it just me, or has there been a marked increase in islamophobic rhethoric as of late?

Trump is allowing all the hate to come to the surface. While he is railing (mostly) on the Mexican hoards, the other GOPers feel the need to ramp up their own hate, and many do it through Islamophobic rants. Shit, did you watch the kid’s table debate last night? Everything Lindsay Graham said yesterday was war, war, war. Attack em there so we don’t have to fight em here!!11!!!!!! If you look at the Google chart, Graham won the kids table handily.

If that doesn’t scare the shit out of everyone, I don’t know what would. He war-mongered from start to finish and people ate it up.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:51:43am

Steven Crowder is The Stupidest Man On Twitter, stupider even than Dim Jim.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:52:20am

MOAR MILITARY SPENDING!!! PAY FOR IT WITH TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH!!!!!!

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:56:15am

Here is Dim Jim fighting to keep his SMOTI title==>
The “Veteran’s Group” consists of ONE GUY. Supporting a political candidate would void his 501(c)(3)

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Timothy Watson  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:56:50am

re: #237 The Vicious Babushka

Steven Crowder is The Stupidest Man On Twitter, stupider even than Dim Jim.

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QFT.

Because a top marginal rate of 39.6% is exactly like a tax rate over 100%.

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nines09  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:57:34am

Man in audience last night was overheard saying his “ass was numb.” Person sitting next to him asked, “Which one on stage is yours?”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:58:11am

re: #237 The Vicious Babushka

Steven Crowder is The Stupidest Man On Twitter, stupider even than Dim Jim.

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No one has proposed cutting all military spending. You’re right. This guy may be even ore dumb than Dim Jim.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:58:24am

re: #240 Timothy Watson

QFT.

Because a top marginal rate of 39.6% is exactly like a tax rate over 100%.

Yes, every wingnut seems to think that raising the marginal tax rate on the 1% means TAKING AWAY EVERY PENNY THEY EARN WITH THERE HARD WORKS OF INHERITING SHIT!!!!!!!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:58:50am

re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth

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They were for it before they were against it..

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Franklin  Sep 17, 2015 • 8:59:15am

re: #240 Timothy Watson

QFT.

Because a top marginal rate of 39.6% is exactly like a tax rate over 100%.

AHH YES, IMPOSE BACKGROUND CHECKS FOR ALL GUN PURCHASES. EVENT THOUGH TAKING AWAY ALL OUR GUNS AND AMMO ISN’T ENOUGH

Sounds just as stupid when you swap in other talking points.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:00:14am

What is Sanders proposing to return the brackets to for the ultra wealthy? If I’m a betting man, I’d bet it’s lower than what it was in the Nixon era.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:00:57am

re: #243 The Vicious Babushka

Yes, every wingnut seems to think that raising the marginal tax rate on the 1% means TAKING AWAY EVERY PENNY THEY EARN WITH THERE HARD WORKS OF INHERITING SHIT!!!!!!!

The inheritance rules are so absurd but it would take awhile to explain, it wouldn’t be so bad if there was still an effective estate tax but the GOP managed to kill that with the “family farms” bullshit.

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Teukka  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:01:21am

re: #236 WhatEVs

Trump is allowing all the hate to come to the surface. While he is railing (mostly) on the Mexican hoards, the other GOPers feel the need to ramp up their own hate, and many do it through Islamophobic rants. Shit, did you watch the kid’s table debate last night? Everything Lindsay Graham said yesterday was war, war, war. Attack em there so we don’t have to fight em here!!11!!!!!! If you look at the Google chart, Graham won the kids table handily.

If that doesn’t scare the shit out of everyone, I don’t know what would. He war-mongered from start to finish and people ate it up.

And it’s not just the Islamophobia, but other fringe conspiracy theory stuff two. And I’m getting a bit concerned….

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b_sharp  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:02:07am

re: #242 HappyWarrior

No one has proposed cutting all military spending. You’re right. This guy may be even ore dumb than Dim Jim.

The guy he responded to on Twitter actually did say all spending should stop, including military.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:02:25am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

Holding you and yours in my thoughts.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:02:32am

re: #248 Teukka

And it’s not just the Islamophobia, but other fringe conspiracy theory stuff two. And I’m getting a bit concerned….

This kind of stuff has to be maddening for you guys overseas to watch. I bet it does make you laugh when they say that Obama’s alienated our allies and you guys remember the Bush administration’s approach.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:02:56am

re: #249 b_sharp

The guy he responded to on Twitter actually did say all spending should stop, including military.

Ah okay. Well I meant candidates. The cu all spending people are idiots who have no understanding of economics.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:04:14am

And Steven is determined to snatch the SMOTI crown right off Dim Jim’s head.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:05:35am

What did Fiorina specifically say about the PP video anyhow that has their starbursts bursting?

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Timothy Watson  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:06:18am

re: #254 HappyWarrior

What did Fiorina specifically say about the PP video anyhow that has their starbursts bursting?

Something about murdering breathing, delivered fetuses to harvest their organs.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:07:21am

re: #255 Timothy Watson

Something about murdering breathing, delivered fetuses to harvest their organs.

Oh Christ.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:07:32am

Anyhow off to lunch

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:07:52am

re: #254 HappyWarrior

What did Fiorina specifically say about the PP video anyhow that has their starbursts bursting?

From RHRealityCheck:

Carly Fiorina: “As regards Planned Parenthood, anyone who has watched this videotape, I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.”

This is also simply not true. The only thing that comes close to what Fiorina describes is in this video, but it’s not at all what she says it is.

The “fully formed fetus” that illustrates the technician’s story is just a couple of edited-in stock images, not anything from the Planned Parenthood undercover footage. One video clip is labeled as coming from a group specializing in anti-choice shock imagery, and the other was a photo of a stillbirth taken from the Internet that the family did not consent to be shown in the video.

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b_sharp  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:08:13am

re: #254 HappyWarrior

What did Fiorina specifically say about the PP video anyhow that has their starbursts bursting?

There was a living baby clawing its way out of a vagina as the doctors were starting their murderous organ harvesting.

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Teukka  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:09:01am

re: #251 HappyWarrior

This kind of stuff has to be maddening for you guys overseas to watch. I bet it does make you laugh when they say that Obama’s alienated our allies and you guys remember the Bush administration’s approach.

I’ve not seen hateful rhetoric at this kind of rate since shorty before February 28, 1986, so I know what it did in Sweden.
So no, I’m not laughing, I’m getting harder and harder to block the reflex to duck behind the nearest stack of sandbags.
No freaking way this ends well.

*smh*

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A Cranky One  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:11:03am

re: #146 Backwoods_Sleuth

puppy caught eating paper decides killing witness is the only way out

Ha! Looks and acts like our latest rescue dog. Mrs Cranky found her wandering in the parking lot of very busy grocery store, starving, thirsty and exhausted. After bringing the puppy home to provide some basic care, we started the rounds to find the owner. But no missing dog reports at animal control or any of the expected places, including on-line sites for lost pets. Here she is on the day we found her:

After some food and water it was nap time

We already had four dogs (last two were rescues), but Mrs Cranky insisted on keeping the puppy. Here she is after being cleaned up, sitting with one of the other rescues:

Cleaned up and hanging with another rescued family member

The other dog was actually a triple rescue. First rescued from a puppy mill, where she was in bad health from neglect and poor nutrition (had lost 17 teeth), then abandoned by the rescue family and captured wandering the streets. Moved through a variety of foster homes but she had behavior issues that prevented her from being adopted. Poor thing didn’t know how to be a dog, much less a pet. Agreed to take her since I understood how to rehab her. It took some work, but the problem behaviors have been eliminated and she’s now a great companion and family member.

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lawhawk  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:11:27am

re: #254 HappyWarrior

She repeated some BS anti choice talking point - a claim that was made by CMP, but which simply didn’t happen:

As regards Planned Parenthood, anyone who has watched this videotape, I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, it’s heart beating, it’s legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.

This is about the character of our nation, and if we will not stand up in and force President Obama to veto this bill, shame on us.

Same with Cruz:

CRUZ: Well, let me tell you, Dana, number one, I’m proud to stand for life. These Planned Parenthood videos are horrifying. I would encourage every American to watch the videos. See — seeing your Planned Parenthood officials callously, heartlessly bartering and selling the body parts of human beings, and then ask yourself, “are these my values?”

These are horrifying. On these videos, Planned Parenthood also essentially confesses to multiple felonies. It is a felony with ten years’ jail term to sell the body parts of unborn children for profit. That’s what these videos show Planned Parenthood doing.

Cruz is in Congress. He knew or had reason to know the videos existed as CMP funneled them to the GOP ahead of their public release. Nothing was done because there was no illegality, and the so called legal eagle didn’t think anything of them. No referral for criminal prosecution. Nothing.

And so far, there’s not a single criminal charge filed anywhere against PP and all the state GOP efforts to investigate have fallen flat - or shown that the GOP is a bunch of lying liars (like in FL where they tried to gin up a violation, but the facts show no such thing).

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:11:37am

re: #251 HappyWarrior

This kind of stuff has to be maddening for you guys overseas to watch. I bet it does make you laugh when they say that Obama’s alienated our allies and you guys remember the Bush administration’s approach.

It is scary to see how standards of journalism have sunk to the point that “trending on Twitter” is now a news category…

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makeitstop  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:12:01am

re: #258 The Vicious Babushka

From RHRealityCheck:

As someone posted on Facebook last night:

Fiorina: “I want everyone to watched these heavily-edited bogus videos and arrive at the same erroneous conclusion that I did!”

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:14:54am

re: #261 A Cranky One

They are both adorable!!

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#CampaignZero  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:17:44am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

Huge hug to you Sleuth.

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b_sharp  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:18:11am

LGF sure has been jerky the last couple of days.

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retired cynic  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:18:58am

I could not bring myself to watch more than a few minutes of the debate last night. Too much of a muchness. They are discussing it on NPR this morning, and saying that they thought Trump faded as the night went on. Perhaps he was bored, but more likely he was tired. That he just ran out of things to say. They also felt that Walker looked tired as the hours dragged on.

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lawhawk  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:20:09am

Walker is telegraphing that he’s not long for the race. After watching his polling crater, he’s now throwing everything into Iowa.

He’s also watching his backers consider his opponents as well.

Toast.

Toast

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stpaulbear  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:24:46am

re: #269 lawhawk

Walker is telegraphing that he’s not long for the race. After watching his polling crater, he’s now throwing everything into Iowa.

He’s also watching his backers consider his opponents as well.

Toast.

I wonder if he’ll let his sons re-enroll in college now.

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wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:24:52am

re: #267 b_sharp

LGF sure has been jerky the last couple of days.

This is what my ‘MENU’ button looks like:

It works, but it doesn’t say ‘menu’.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:25:53am

re: #269 lawhawk

Walker is telegraphing that he’s not long for the race. After watching his polling crater, he’s now throwing everything into Iowa.

[Embedded content]

He’s also watching his backers consider his opponents as well.

Toast.

[Embedded content]

How much did Kochs spend on him?

Watching Scott crash & burn: Priceless.

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ObserverArt  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:25:58am

Wow…I was listening to the Dan Le Batard show driving home from the printer’s this morning when I caught a bit of this story. I didn’t catch the comedians name, but figured it was such a story that all I had to do was type into Google: Comedian admits he lied about being involved in 9/11 and sure enough up came this…

NY Times - Steve Rannazzisi, Comedian Who Told of 9/11 Escape, Admits He Lied

When the comedian Steve Rannazzisi has explained his success, which includes seven seasons starring on a popular TV show, “The League,” and a one-hour special this Saturday on Comedy Central, he has frequently attributed it to decisions he made after narrowly escaping the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

In elaborate detail, Mr. Rannazzisi, 37, has described working at Merrill Lynch’s offices on the 54th floor of the south tower when the first plane struck the north tower.

“I was there and then the first tower got hit and we were like jostled all over the place,” he told an interviewer in 2009.

He fled to the street just minutes before another plane slammed into his building, he said, and decided that very day that life was too precious to waste opportunities. So he abandoned his New York desk job to pursue a career as an entertainer in Los Angeles.

Nonetheless, he said, he remained affected by his memories of that day.

“I still have dreams of like, you know, those falling dreams,” he told the interviewer.

Confronted by The New York Times this week, though, with evidence that undermined his account, Mr. Rannazzisi, after a day of deliberation, acknowledged on Tuesday that his account was fiction. Actually, he had been working in Midtown that day, and not for Merrill Lynch, which has no record of his employment and had no offices in either tower.

“I was not at the Trade Center on that day,” he said in a statement provided by his publicist, Matthew Labov. “I don’t know why I said this. This was inexcusable. I am truly, truly sorry.”

It was unclear how Mr. Rannazzisi’s admission might affect his standing with Buffalo Wild Wings, which had made him the face of an ad campaign associated with the start of this N.F.L. season and which had featured him in commercials last spring for March Madness.

“We are disappointed to learn of Steve’s misrepresentations regarding the events of September 11, 2001,” Buffalo Wild Wings said in a statement Tuesday night. “We are currently re-evaluating our relationship with Steve pending a review of all the facts.” Comedy Central expressed similar disappointment and said it too had not decided its next step.

But FX Networks, whose FXX carries “The League,” said that while Mr. Rannazzi’s deception had been “upsetting” and “unfortunate,” it still would go forward with him as a character in the show’s final season. It has produced 11 of the 13 episodes, and production of the final two is not expected to be completed until mid-October. “We believe Steve is sincere in his apology and will do everything he can to make amends moving forward,” the network said in a statement.

Mr. Rannazzisi, who declined requests for an interview, said in his statement that once he had lied, he could not figure out a way to undo the damage.

- - CUT - -

Plenty more at the New York Times…it is an extensive story. A real head shaker, this one.

EDIT: Dan Le Batard is a talking head that has a radio show on ESPN radio.

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aagcobb  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:26:51am

re: #260 Teukka

I’ve not seen hateful rhetoric at this kind of rate since shorty before February 28, 1986, so I know what it did in Sweden.
So no, I’m not laughing, I’m getting harder and harder to block the reflex to duck behind the nearest stack of sandbags.
No freaking way this ends well.

*smh*

It ends well when the GOP candidate for President loses the election November 2016.

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b_sharp  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:27:15am

re: #271 wrenchwench

This is what my ‘MENU’ button looks like:

It works, but it doesn’t say ‘menu’.

Are you on a tablet or phone? That is the standard menu icon now.

Edit: It looks like Charles is using that icon (character) for all screen sizes.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:27:19am

re: #271 wrenchwench

This is what my ‘MENU’ button looks like:

It works, but it doesn’t say ‘menu’.

That’s a standard Menu icon in most apps. I see the same thing in my banking and kindle apps.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:27:56am

re: #272 The Vicious Babushka

How much did Kochs spend on him?

Watching Scott crash & burn: Priceless.

Too bad it’s so soon. I’d just as soon see the Koch’s waste more money.

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Kryptik  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:28:54am

re: #262 lawhawk

Cruz is in Congress. He knew or had reason to know the videos existed as CMP funneled them to the GOP ahead of their public release. Nothing was done because there was no illegality, and the so called legal eagle didn’t think anything of them. No referral for criminal prosecution. Nothing.

And so far, there’s not a single criminal charge filed anywhere against PP and all the state GOP efforts to investigate have fallen flat - or shown that the GOP is a bunch of lying liars (like in FL where they tried to gin up a violation, but the facts show no such thing).

The problem is, they might not have to actually file charges to kill PP. ACORN had investigations that turned up bunkum, but the legislative dickery and political pariah-ing was enough to kill it dead. Yeah, PP is a much more aware and on the ball organization, but the same thing applies: they don’t need to actually kill it via criminal investigation long as they can effectively legislate it and other organizations out of existence and find it guilty in the court of public opinion.

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Teukka  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:28:54am

re: #274 aagcobb

It ends well when the GOP candidate for President loses the election November 2016.

I beg to differ.

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b_sharp  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:30:14am

re: #279 Teukka

I beg to differ.

If they lose in 2016 they’ll just double down on the rhetoric until somebody takes them too seriously.

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wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:30:41am

re: #275 b_sharp

Are you on a tablet or phone? That is the standard menu icon now.

Laptop. I was wondering whether I had missed something.

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Teukka  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:31:07am

re: #280 b_sharp

If they lose in 2016 they’ll just double down on the rhetoric until somebody takes them too seriously.

They’ve doubled down on it to such an extent that somebody most likely will take them too seriously long before Nov ‘16.

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stpaulbear  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:32:07am

re: #267 b_sharp

LGF sure has been jerky the last couple of days.

I’m OK if I don’t sign in, but the site will crash within 15-20 minutes of logging in. Someone yesterday was saying that disabling a plugin helped, but if someone posted how to do that, I missed it (I’m kind of the opposite of a tech guy).

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ObserverArt  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:32:27am

re: #267 b_sharp

LGF sure has been jerky the last couple of days.

Yeah it sure has. I thought it was all due to the changes in Chrome with the way it was working with videos. So, I have been using Firefox and that was okay for a day or two, but it is still s-l-o-w to type and to react. It is better than Chrome…just.

This site was always a joy to use. That is not the case at this time. I sure hope Charles can help it out. I am not having these same issues with other sites, even ones that are notoriously difficult like ESPN.

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Kryptik  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:32:36am

re: #274 aagcobb

Just because they don’t get the White House doesn’t mean that it’s going to be all wine and roses. If they win enough elections down ballot (like they pretty much have been the last 5 years) it might not matter much who’s in the White House. The presidency is not the end-all be all, and it can’t be a backstop forever either.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:35:01am

FAIL OF THE DAY==>

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:37:01am

re: #286 The Vicious Babushka

He kept us safe

Well, he did keep Dick Cheney in an undisclosed location for a long period of time…

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:37:19am

re: #282 Teukka

They’ve doubled down on it to such an extent that somebody most likely will take them too seriously long before Nov ‘16.

Hate will never go away. People are just…well, people. And a lot of people suck.

What does need to stop is the people who are running for higher offices being taken seriously as candidates when they are stupid, uneducated and hateful. (Yes, I am throwing in educated even though many people are quite smart without an education. I think it is still important, especially in people who will be drafting or voting on laws we all have to follow.)

The larger problem I see is that we have had 25 years of right-wing propaganda and that has sunk into the hearts and minds of a lot of people. And, quite unfortunately, there are many who are true believers (e.g., the mayor of Irving who might very well believe in her heart that Sharia law is a real problem, when it isn’t.) This will not get resolved until the right is called out on its bullshit, shown the closet where they need to do a long timeout, and laughed out of existence. Only then will we be able to right the hearts and minds of the brainwashed.

And that said, there will always be greedy, heartless people (as much as there will always be racists, homophobes, etc.), many of which will never see the light and will always be what they are.

We are going in correct directions. But I think we’re talking a generation before the real craziness abates…until our kids (now) become adults.

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Kilroy01  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:37:50am

In some bizarre world that the Republican win the White House I seriously doubt they would get rid of PP. It is way to easy to use as a whipping boy and fund raising.
Look a abortion, when they had the power to do something about it, they didn’t, and now they continue to use it to raise money and get out the vote.

I’m still glad we won’t have to worry to much about President Trump on this issue anyways.. //

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:37:55am

re: #286 The Vicious Babushka

FAIL OF THE DAY==>

[Embedded content]

* Except on 9/11/01.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:38:33am

re: #285 Kryptik

Just because they don’t get the White House doesn’t mean that it’s going to be all wine and roses. If they win enough elections down ballot (like they pretty much have been the last 5 years) it might not matter much who’s in the White House. The presidency is not the end-all be all, and it can’t be a backstop forever either.

Indeed, we need Congress too and state legislatures/governor mansions.

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stpaulbear  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:38:39am

re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Well, he did keep Dick Cheney in an undisclosed location for a long period of time…

..where he plotted the invasion of Iraq…

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b_sharp  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:38:53am

re: #284 ObserverArt

Yeah it sure has. I thought it was all due to the changes in Chrome with the way it was working with videos. So, I have been using Firefox and that was okay for a day or two, but it is still s-l-o-w to type and to react. It is better than Chrome…just.

This site was always a joy to use. That is not the case at this time. I sure hope Charles can help it out. I am not having these same issues with other sites, even ones that are notoriously difficult like ESPN.

I’m getting random audio bits as well. It looks like a video ad is trying to run. I received a notice that shockwave crashed yesterday but I didn’t investigate it further.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:39:01am

And thanks everyone who explained to me about the shit Fiorina pulled. Lame shit even for her.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:40:23am

re: #286 The Vicious Babushka

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:40:41am

What I fear most is if the Democrats win 2016, that there will be this mindset by voters in 2020 that they’ve controlled the WH too long and give the GOP a big win because of that.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:41:20am

re: #289 Kilroy01

In some bizarre world that the Republican win the White House I seriously doubt they would get rid of PP. It is way to easy to use as a whipping boy and fund raising.
Look a abortion, when they had the power to do something about it, they didn’t, and now they continue to use it to raise money and get out the vote.

I’m still glad we won’t have to worry to much about President Trump on this issue anyways.. //

Five years ago I would have agreed. Not now. These people are fucking crazy and would do just that.

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Kryptik  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:41:25am

re: #289 Kilroy01

My bracing fear is that they can eliminate PP, and sit on their thumbs far as federal action on abortion in general while allowing the states to gut the rights to such at will. And PP doesn’t even need to exist anymore for them to use it and other groups as a political boogeyman. I’ve been using the comparison a little liberally, but again look at ACORN. The organization hasn’t existed for nigh onto a decade after it was essentially killed, and they’re still treating it as the spectre of all true voter fraud epidemics across the country.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:42:03am

re: #295 WhatEVs

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Seriously if 9/11 had happened on a Democrat’s watch, we’d hear that it was the proof onc and for all that the Dems can’t be trusted with national security. Happens with W and it’s “My bother kept us safe.” Now I don’t blame Bush for 9/11 but I am tired of the pass the Republicans get on national security issues from the media.

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lawhawk  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:42:46am

re: #286 The Vicious Babushka

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:42:47am

re: #294 HappyWarrior

And thanks everyone who explained to me about the shit Fiorina pulled. Lame shit even for her.

This was after the hair-pulling fight she had with Donald where he called her (righteously) a Dummy & Loser, and she tried to failsplain that her massive fails at HP were actually wins & Tom Perkins, who said You’re Fired! at her, really thought she was Teh Awesome.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:43:29am

re: #301 The Vicious Babushka

This was after the hair-pulling fight she had with Donald where he called her (righteously) a Dummy & Loser, and she tried to failsplain that her massive fails at HP were actually wins & Tom Perkins, who said You’re Fired! at her, really thought she was Teh Awesome.

Gotcha. Agan thanks. Man what a trainwreck this whole party is.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:43:31am

re: #296 HappyWarrior

What I fear most is if the Democrats win 2016, that there will be this mindset by voters in 2020 that they’ve controlled the WH too long and give the GOP a big win because of that.

While that is possible, I think we have a different generation.

One thing Trump has shown us is that politics is no longer the politics of our parents (or even most of us). Once the kiddies can vote (2020 and beyond), assuming the GOP remains the regressive asshats they are, I do not think people who, for example, have gay friends are going to go “Oh, dems have been in too long, let’s vote in people who want to kill my friend Pat!” I just do not see that.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:44:38am

re: #299 HappyWarrior

Seriously if 9/11 had happened on a Democrat’s watch, we’d hear that it was the proof onc and for all that the Dems can’t be trusted with national security. Happens with W and it’s “My bother kept us safe.” Now I don’t blame Bush for 9/11 but I am tired of the pass the Republicans get on national security issues from the media.

The same with Dems on fiscal issues. They have this bad rap from decades ago. They are strong on defense and strong on economic issues.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:44:45am

re: #303 WhatEVs

While that is possible, I think we have a different generation.

One thing Trump has shown us is that politics is no longer the politics of our parents (or even most of us). Once the kiddies can vote (2020 and beyond), assuming the GOP remains the regressive asshats they are, I do not think people who, for example, have gay friends are going to go “Oh, dems have been in too long, let’s vote in people who want to kill my friend Pat!” I just do not see that.

I hope you’re right. That’s actually going to be the first presidential election my kid brother can vote in and I have to say the latter part of the millenials are even more progressive minded than mine are. Though geography and upbringing play a role too.

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ObserverArt  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:45:11am

re: #293 b_sharp

I’m getting random audio bits as well. It looks like a video ad is trying to run. I received a notice that shockwave crashed yesterday but I didn’t investigate it further.

Yeah, I had a voice come in when I was logging in. Sacred the crap outta me. Lasted all of a second at most.

I hope it all comes down to the video world changing coding and becoming HTML based and booting Adobe Flash out of the picture. With all the videos people load, and the video ads loading and changing…there might be a war going on in the code and the browser interactions.

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makeitstop  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:45:17am

re: #290 HappyWarrior

* Except on 9/11/01.

Add an asterisk for the anthrax attacks, which shut down part of Congress for a while and killed a few people.

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lawhawk  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:45:23am

re: #294 HappyWarrior

Her business record in short:

Head Lucent - watch company implode under sketchy accounting begun on her watch but after she departs.

Head HP - watch company implode with poorly executed mergers, suggestions to buy companies that are seriously overvalued by her, and lay off 30,000+ while not increasing profits.

fortune.com

Yeah, no wonder the GOP loves her. She’s as economically illiterate as the rest, but she’s a slightly better word salad package.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:45:34am

re: #304 WhatEVs

The same with Dems on fiscal issues. They have this bad rap from decades ago. They are strong on defense and strong on economic issues.

Right. The idea that the Republicans are the fiscally responsible party nationally should have ended with Reagan. Ironically the more fiscally conservative Republican presidents were more moderates who the conservatives hated like Ike and Jerry Ford.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:46:32am

re: #308 lawhawk

Her business record in short:

Head Lucent - watch company implode under sketchy accounting begun on her watch but after she departs.

Head HP - watch company implode with poorly executed mergers, suggestions to buy companies that are seriously overvalued by her, and lay off 30,000+ while not increasing profits.

fortune.com

Yeah, no wonder the GOP loves her. She’s as economically illiterate as the rest, but she’s a slightly better word salad package.

Like Romney and Trump, I am flat out unimpressed with her business record and acumen.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:47:57am

*yawn*

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:49:01am

re: #311 Backwoods_Sleuth

*yawn*

[Embedded content]

It’s also my parents anniversary and they have been married three less times than Kim Davis and they support gay marriage.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:49:31am

re: #305 HappyWarrior

I hope you’re right. That’s actually going to be the first presidential election my kid brother can vote in and I have to say the latter part of the millenials are even more progressive minded than mine are. Though geography and upbringing play a role too.

As does an education where you are shown things outside of your…comfort zone, for lack of a better phrase. Someone who doesn’t know any icky gay people will likely follow their parents beliefs. But we also have television as an influence, where there are a lot of gay people who kids like. I am picking one issue, but it really spans multiple issues. Open minds makes open hearts.

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b_sharp  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:50:08am

re: #311 Backwoods_Sleuth

*yawn*

[Embedded content]

Just another form of guilt by association.

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ObserverArt  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:50:28am

re: #302 HappyWarrior

Gotcha. Agan thanks. Man what a trainwreck this whole party is.

And yet a bunch of people are still riding that train. It really makes me wonder if they are really concerned about this country’s issues or sticking with what they have always known and done. I think the GOP relies on their base sticking with them no matter what. I do not understand that at all. In a sense they are condoning the mess. And also it becomes an abusive relationship.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:50:31am
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Teukka  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:50:34am

re: #288 WhatEVs

Hate will never go away. People are just…well, people. And a lot of people suck.

What does need to stop is the people who are running for higher offices being taken seriously as candidates when they are stupid, uneducated and hateful. (Yes, I am throwing in educated even though many people are quite smart without an education. I think it is still important, especially in people who will be drafting or voting on laws we all have to follow.)

The larger problem I see is that we have had 25 years of right-wing propaganda and that has sunk into the hearts and minds of a lot of people. And, quite unfortunately, there are many who are true believers (e.g., the mayor of Irving who might very well believe in her heart that Sharia law is a real problem, when it isn’t.) This will not get resolved until the right is called out on its bullshit, shown the closet where they need to do a long timeout, and laughed out of existence. Only then will we be able to right the hearts and minds of the brainwashed.

The feeling I’m getting is that the right won’t be called out on their bullshit as, rather that they’ll learn the hard way what the price for playing on ignorance, hate and prejudice is, and just how high the human cost will be.

And that the human cost might be on such an order of magnitude that the instigators and facilitators will have to be brought to justice simply to maintain social cohesion.

And that said, there will always be greedy, heartless people (as much as there will always be racists, homophobes, etc.), many of which will never see the light and will always be what they are.

We are going in correct directions. But I think we’re talking a generation before the real craziness abates…until our kids (now) become adults.

I sure hope so.

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lawhawk  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:51:05am

What global warming?

5th straight season with record heat -

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:52:04am

re: #313 WhatEVs

As does an education where you are shown things outside of your…comfort zone, for lack of a better phrase. Someone who doesn’t know any icky gay people will likely follow their parents beliefs. But we also have television as an influence, where there are a lot of gay people who kids like. I am picking one issue, but it really spans multiple issues. Open minds makes open hearts.

Right and I think that’s why they hate people like Ellen and the show Glee since both show gay people who are successful and happy and well adjusted. Speaking for myself, my own change of mind about gay people happened after meeting a gay second cousin, guy is brilliant, Harvard educated and all. I was never theologically homophobic mind you but more like a lot of young kids were gay gross sort of thing.

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Kilroy01  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:52:49am

re: #298 Kryptik

re: #297 WhatEVs

Five years ago I would have agreed. Not now. These people are fucking crazy and would do just that.

To be clear, I want a Republican in the White House as much as I want to fall from a great height into a pile a razor blades.

I’m more worried about the Supreme Court Justice that one of these idiot would pick.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:53:10am

re: #317 Teukka

The feeling I’m getting is that the right won’t be called out on their bullshit as, rather that they’ll learn the hard way what the price for playing on ignorance, hate and prejudice is, and just how high the human cost will be.

And that the human cost might be on such an order of magnitude that the instigators and facilitators will have to be brought to justice simply to maintain social cohesion.

I sure hope so.

It is very possible that it will take another OK City Bombing to accomplish that. I hope and pray not, but I don’t know.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:53:29am

re: #315 ObserverArt

And yet a bunch of people are still riding that train. It really makes me wonder if they are really concerned about this country’s issues or sticking with what they have always known and done. I think the GOP relies on their base sticking with them no matter what. I do not understand that at all. In a sense they are condoning the mess. And also it becomes an abusive relationship.

Well we’ve seen that right here on LGF in regards to people who continue to ride that train. I think you’re right though. I think the GOP relies on so called yellow dog Republicans who will support them no matter what because they hate the Democrats and liberals.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:53:59am

re: #320 Kilroy01

To be clear, I want a Republican in the White House as much as I want to fall from a great height into a pile a razor blades.

I’m more worried about the Supreme Court Justice that one of these idiot would pick.

It makes me shiver who they might have in mind since obviously someone like Bunning would be too liberal.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:54:34am

Tsumani advisory still in effect for California and Hawaii.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:55:11am

re: #319 HappyWarrior

Right and I think that’s why they hate people like Ellen and the show Glee since both show gay people who are successful and happy and well adjusted. Speaking for myself, my own change of mind about gay people happened after meeting a gay second cousin, guy is brilliant, Harvard educated and all. I was never theologically homophobic mind you but more like a lot of young kids were gay gross sort of thing.

I can’t express just how much I love Ellen. The good she does every single day, the following she has to promote her tag line “Be Kind To One Another” and that she puts her words into action. I adore her.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:55:42am

Jade Helm After-Action:

Jade Helm Observers Unsure What To Do With All This Tactical Shit Now

duffelblog.com

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:56:40am

re: #320 Kilroy01

To be clear, I want a Republican in the White House as much as I want to fall from a great height into a pile a razor blades.

I’m more worried about the Supreme Court Justice that one of these idiot would pick.

We should all be worried about the SCOTUS. I honestly do not see any of the current GOP candidates winning. There is just too much crazy surrounding them. I don’t know if it is possible for a late-stage candidate to come out, so if it’s all these clowns we saw last night…I just do not see it.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:57:10am

re: #325 WhatEVs

I can’t express just how much I love Ellen. The good she does every single day, the following she has to promote her tag line “Be Kind To One Another” and that she puts her words into action. I adore her.

She’s one of my mom’s favorites. I really love her a lot too. She does a lot of good by just being herself.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:57:29am

re: #326 Decatur Deb

Jade Helm After-Action:

Jade Helm Observers Unsure What To Do With All This Tactical Shit Now

duffelblog.com

Gift it at christmas.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:57:48am

re: #322 HappyWarrior

Well we’ve seen that right here on LGF in regards to people who continue to ride that train. I think you’re right though. I think the GOP relies on so called yellow dog Republicans who will support them no matter what because they hate the Democrats and liberals.

And that hate, IMHO, comes from Rush Limbaugh, Fox and the latter firebreathers who all get crazier and crazier.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:57:54am

OT Drive-by - Because the WTF expressions on the faces of the males are priceless:

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:58:44am

re: #330 WhatEVs

And that hate, IMHO, comes from Rush Limbaugh, Fox and the latter firebreathers who all get crazier and crazier.

Yep and it gets worse when the GOP leadership refuses to call it out. As a result, Rush Limbaugh is considered one of the most influential conservatives.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 9:59:00am

re: #326 Decatur Deb

Jade Helm Observers Unsure What To Do With All This Tactical Shit Now

Wait until the next natural and/or man-made disaster that compels the government to send out troops to restore order and basic services, then declare it is a coup attempt and come out shootin’

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Kryptik  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:00:17am

re: #331 CuriousLurker

On a practical note, riding sidesaddle on a motorcycle just strikes me as a terribly dangerous idea.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:01:07am

re: #332 HappyWarrior

Yep and it gets worse when the GOP leadership refuses to call it out. As a result, Rush Limbaugh is considered one of the most influential conservatives.

They missed their chance to do so a long time ago and as a result, it has turned into an attention-grabbing race to the bottom. And we have not hit it yet, as the bottom keeps being lowered.

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wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:01:41am

re: #331 CuriousLurker

OT Drive-by - Because the WTF expressions on the faces of the males are priceless:

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Wait until one of those men needs his bike fixed, and the mechanic is a woman!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:01:43am

re: #335 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They missed their chance to do so a long time ago and as a result, it has turned into an attention-grabbing race to the bottom. And we have not hit it yet, as the bottom keeps being lowered.

Yeah the mistake was not calling Rush out in the early 90’s.

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wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:03:55am

re: #334 Kryptik

On a practical note, riding sidesaddle on a motorcycle just strikes me as a terribly dangerous idea.

i couldn’t decide which was worse.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:05:50am

re: #339 wrenchwench

i couldn’t decide which was worse.

After years of sitting and a long recovery cycle, today is the day I’ll fire up my ancient 500cc thumper. I think.

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Kryptik  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:06:29am

re: #339 wrenchwench

Well, motorcycles terrify me to begin with, and sidesaddle in general is one of those things where I wonder how the hell people do it to begin with.

Combination of the two is all sorts of ‘nope’ for me.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:06:57am

re: #332 HappyWarrior

Yep and it gets worse when the GOP leadership refuses to call it out. As a result, Rush Limbaugh is considered one of the most influential conservatives.

The one good thing is that things like #StopRush and #FlushRush are getting a wide digital audience, which means kids. That’s why I said that I think the future is going to be brighter. The GOP is the party of (mostly) old, white people. It’s literally a dying demographic.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:07:30am
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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:07:54am

re: #334 Kryptik

On a practical note, riding sidesaddle on a motorcycle just strikes me as a terribly dangerous idea.

Not to mention the tassels hanging from her outfit (sorry, not sure of the name of it). It’s too close to the wheel.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:08:15am

re: #316 Backwoods_Sleuth

#KimDavis lawyers file another item at 6th Circuit appeals court, stating objections to judge’s contempt ruling. ^JC pic.twitter.com
— Bluegrass Politics

This is almost more clown car parade then the GOP candidates

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wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:08:20am

re: #341 Kryptik

Well, motorcycles terrify me to begin with, and sidesaddle in general is one of those things where I wonder how the hell people do it to begin with.

Combination of the two is all sorts of ‘nope’ for me.

I haven’t driven a motorcycle, but I have driven horses. Generally cycles are more consistently obedient.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:09:45am

re: #342 WhatEVs

The one good thing is that things like #StopRush and #FlushRush are getting a wide digital audience, which means kids. That’s why I said that I think the future is going to be brighter. The GOP is the party of (mostly) old, white people. It’s literally a dying demographic.

Yeah good point. I am pretty optimistic too actually since self identified liberals have gone up in recent years while self identified conservatives have gone down.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:10:11am

re: #337 HappyWarrior

Yeah the mistake was not calling Rush out in the early 90’s.

Party over country. No way they would call him out. They needed him. Both Rush and Ailes. The elder Bush as much as said so.

thinkprogress.org

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:10:39am

re: #320 Kilroy01

To be clear, I want a Republican in the White House as much as I want to fall from a great height into a pile a razor blades.

I’m more worried about the Supreme Court Justice that one of these idiot would pick.

Even if we do hold the WH, a Democratic president is going to have one hell of a time getting anyone to the left of Antonin Scalia confirmed. In the old days, leaving a vacancy on the SC was inconceivable. Now, the Republicans will leave a seat vacant rather than confirm anyone they don’t like - which would be anyone nominated by a Democrat. The media will not question their arguments and parts of it will pat them on the back for their intransigence.
A Democratic president with this majority-nihilist Congress will spend four years in office with no legislative accomplishments if that president chooses not to follow the path of Bill Clinton (DOMA, CFMA). If we elect a Dem president without shifting the balance in Congress that president’s term will be a disappointment and the GOP will be able to run against do-nothing Democrats almost forever.

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stpaulbear  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:12:36am

re: #346 wrenchwench

I haven’t driven a motorcycle, but I have driven horses. Generally cycles are more consistently obedient.

Yep. A motorcycle or scooter doesn’t break into a full speed gallop when it knows you’re heading back to the garage.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:12:40am

re: #348 WhatEVs

Party over country. No way they would call him out. They needed him. Both Rush and Ailes. The elder Bush as much as said so.

thinkprogress.org

Amazing the stuff they say when they think’ the tapes aren’t rolling.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:13:33am

re: #350 stpaulbear

Yep. A motorcycle or scooter doesn’t break into a full speed gallop when it knows you’re heading back to the garage.

If you routed the throttle cable properly.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:15:05am

What I learned last night at the debate.

Carson is still boring.
Jeb is not the smarter brother.
Carly is going to be the VP pick. (She’s the anti Hillary).

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b_sharp  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:15:25am

re: #346 wrenchwench

I haven’t driven a motorcycle, but I have driven horses. Generally cycles are more consistently obedient.

Last time I drove a horse I couldn’t find the clutch, which is better than V not finding the brake & ending up with a huge ass bruise from the bouncing on a runaway horse.

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Kragar  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:15:42am
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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:15:45am

re: #340 Decatur Deb

After years of sitting and a long recovery cycle, today is the day I’ll fire up my ancient 500cc thumper. I think.

Grass track! Some of the scariest fun you can have with your clothes on.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:16:06am

re: #355 Kragar

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classy.

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Franklin  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:16:51am

re: #333 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Wait until the next natural and/or man-made disaster that compels the government to send out troops to restore order and basic services, then declare it is a coup attempt and come out shootin’ hide in the bushes pissing your pants.

More like it…

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:17:48am

The problem I see for now is not enough of ours voting in the midterms.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:19:01am

Teleworking today, working much harder at home than usual at work. Or at least concentrating on work more.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:19:48am

What was the BS last night about having to take care of anchor babies for 75 years? A majority of them work and pay taxes. I really hope they bring up these points in the general election debates because Hillary (and especially Bernie) would tear them apart. These people are so stupid they believe that their lies are true.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:20:14am

re: #350 stpaulbear

Yep. A motorcycle or scooter doesn’t break into a full speed gallop when it knows you’re heading back to the garage.

My cousins horse Prince used to do that. His son, Prince Jr of course, used to trot close to the barbed and electric fence when I was on him to try and hit my leg on it. He also kicked me pretty hard when I was cinching up his saddle once. He and I had a turbulent relationship.

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The War TARDIS  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:20:34am

Will have to write a page tonight, but another Doctor Who audio story was just released, where we learn that Clara gained a new habit between Seasons.

Slightly riskier than Smoking.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:21:07am

re: #355 Kragar

Slaves built the US the way cows built McDonald’s’ — and other historical ‘facts’ from a Breitbart editor

well, the words chattel and cattle do come from the same root…

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:21:11am

re: #361 Iwouldprefernotto

What was the BS last night about having to take care of anchor babies for 75 years? A majority of them work and pay taxes. I really hope they bring up these points in the general election debates because Hillary (and especially Bernie) would tear them apart. These people are so stupid they believe that their lies are true.

That was Trump a’huffin’ and a’puffin’ saying a bunch of bullshit. American born Americans do not get “taken care of for their whole entire lives” and people who receive Social Security PAY INTO THE FUCKING SYSTEM.

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dell*nix  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:21:26am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sorry to hear that. That is something that is truly painful.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:22:15am

Ben has teh sads that he doesn’t have a little blue check mark.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:23:16am

re: #367 The Vicious Babushka

Ben has teh sads that he doesn’t have a little blue check mark.

I thought UpChuck was banned from Twitter?

/

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Jenner7  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:23:28am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

So sorry Backwoods. I’ll be thinking of you and your family. Hang in there.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:23:49am

re: #361 Iwouldprefernotto

What was the BS last night about having to take care of anchor babies for 75 years? A majority of them work and pay taxes. I really hope they bring up these points in the general election debates because Hillary (and especially Bernie) would tear them apart. These people are so stupid they believe that their lies are true.

I have no idea but I would love for a journalist to tell Jindal and Cruz that they qualify as what they call “anchor babies.” This idea that people just come here and have kids to get the US citizenship is highly offensive and ridiculous. So many of our relatives have US citizenship this way.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:24:19am

re: #367 The Vicious Babushka

Ben has teh sads that he doesn’t have a little blue check mark.

Any ideas on how to get this account @verified?

Verified? You have to prove that everything you tweeted on it was true.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:24:53am

re: #370 HappyWarrior

I have no idea but I would love for a journalist to tell Jindal and Cruz that they qualify as what they call “anchor babies.” This idea that people just come here and have kids to get the US citizenship is highly offensive and ridiculous. So many of our relatives have US citizenship this way.

And all but one of Trump’s kids are birthright babies (as is Trump himself).

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:25:15am

re: #371 Decatur Deb

Verified? You have to prove that everything you tweeted on it was true.

Or at least act like a verified human.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:25:25am

Speaking of clocks…

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:26:28am

re: #372 Backwoods_Sleuth

And all but one of Trump’s kids are birthright babies (as is Trump himself).

Right, Trump’s mother is an immigrant as have been most of his wives.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:26:32am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:27:03am

re: #374 Iwouldprefernotto

Speaking of clocks…

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Ya know, I would give Ben props for this but the thing is he’s just as stupid and disonset as Trump.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:27:16am

re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Fuckers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:27:24am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:28:53am
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Kragar  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:28:53am
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stpaulbear  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:28:56am

re: #362 Eventual Carrion

My dad and sisters liked horses so we boarded a couple at a low-rent stable near our house. I only rode a few times, but the last time I was on the horse with a friend behind me, the horse bolted for the stable and tried to knock us off by nearly sideswiping a tree. We both leaned away from the tree and fell off the horse onto the gravel driveway, but luckily neither of us was hurt. I have no love for horses. I DO love my 300cc scooter.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:30:11am

re: #379 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You have no idea how much that one pisses me off. I was browsing the debate discussion last night. I am tired of vaccines, which as you, I, and everyone else here know do a ton of good being scapegoated for autism. Now living with HFA isn’t always the most easy thing- I have difficulties with social interaction, I have worse handwriting than your average high school freshman, and I get a little obsessive but I am tired of my condition being used to bash something that has saved countless lives. Autism isn’t “more common” because of vaccines, we know about autism more and it’s easier to diagnose it now. I am certain that had I been born in 2007 instead of 1987, I would have had my Asperger’s detected earlier.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:30:30am

Don’t be so happy that Ben Shapiro mocks Trump. He hearts Huckabee.

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Jenner7  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:30:49am
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BlueSpotinAL  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:31:22am

re: #319 HappyWarrior

Right and I think that’s why they hate people like Ellen and the show Glee since both show gay people who are successful and happy and well adjusted. Speaking for myself, my own change of mind about gay people happened after meeting a gay second cousin, guy is brilliant, Harvard educated and all. I was never theologically homophobic mind you but more like a lot of young kids were gay gross sort of thing.

Perhaps if Hollywood could humanize women who have to deal with unwanted pregnancy…

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:31:30am

re: #382 stpaulbear

My dad and sisters liked horses so we boarded a couple at a low-rent stable near our house. I only rode a few times, but the last time I was on the horse with a friend behind me, the horse bolted for the stable and tried to knock us off by nearly sideswiping a tree. We both leaned away from the tree and fell off the horse onto the gravel driveway, but luckily neither of us was hurt. I have no love for horses. I DO love my 300cc scooter.

It was a weird irony that my Dad whose parents and maternal grandfather were riders ended up being allergic. Made my 4th birthday which was held at my grandmother’s with her horses that more awkward but like a champ he stayed it out.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:32:52am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

Don’t be so happy that Ben Shapiro mocks Trump. He hearts Huckabee.

Heh isn’t that a movie? I heart Huckabees? Didn’t know Lil Ben was a Huck guy since I thought most of the Breitbrats were with TEam Trump.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:32:57am

re: #382 stpaulbear

My dad and sisters liked horses so we boarded a couple at a low-rent stable near our house. I only rode a few times, but the last time I was on the horse with a friend behind me, the horse bolted for the stable and tried to knock us off by nearly sideswiping a tree. We both leaned away from the tree and fell off the horse onto the gravel driveway, but luckily neither of us was hurt. I have no love for horses. I DO love my 300cc scooter.

Fuck horses & motorcycles. I love my SUV.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:33:05am

here’s a kitten. I think we could all use one right now…

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:33:06am

re: #386 BlueSpotinAL

Perhaps if Hollywood could humanize women who have to deal with unwanted pregnancy…

Amen.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:33:29am

re: #388 HappyWarrior

Heh isn’t that a movie? I heart Huckabees? Didn’t know Lil Ben was a Huck guy since I thought most of the Breitbrats were with TEam Trump.

LOL yes it is, I forgot that. It is not a movie about Mike Huckabee though.

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blueraven  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:34:58am

re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth

Here you go Alan, you dumb ass. Let me find the text of the deal for you. Doubt you can actually read though.

apps.washingtonpost.com

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KGxvi  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:35:00am

re: #327 WhatEVs

I don’t know if it is possible for a late-stage candidate to come out, so if it’s all these clowns we saw last night

Who is actually left on the bench for the GOP that would be acceptable to the base and have a reasonable chance of being competitive in the general? Cheney would be acceptable to the base but would test the crazification factor in the general. Huntsman might be able to win the general but he worked for Obama and now favors gay marriage, so he’s not acceptable to the base. Romney? (I’ll wait while you laugh it off). Susana Martinez could possibly be interesting, but she doesn’t want to repeal the ACA and isn’t opposed to Common Core, so that wouldn’t get her out of the general. A late stage candidate isn’t coming, it’s going to be one of these clowns - unless against all possible odds we end up with a brokered convention and a compromise candidate appears.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:35:04am

re: #392 The Vicious Babushka

LOL yes it is, I forgot that. It is not a movie about Mike Huckabee though.

I know it’s not lol. I was wondering because I remembered the title and thought that may have been clever word play on your part.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:35:23am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:35:25am

re: #393 Varek Raith

Limbaugh: Watching GOP Debate Was Like “Watching 11 Rush Limbaughs”

I bet that got Rush hard since Rush fantasizes about himself.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:36:06am

re: #394 blueraven

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Here you go Alan, you dumb ass. Let me find the text of the deal for you. Doubt you can actually read though.

apps.washingtonpost.com

Oh good grief.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:36:10am

Steve “Wants To Be SMOTI So Bad” Crowder thinks Carly Owned All The Things AND ONLY LIBTARD ARE SAYING SHE LIES!!! NO HILLARY IS TEH LYER CARLY IS TEH SEXYBOMB!!!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:38:07am
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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:38:36am

Steve Crowder is fapping to Carly so hard.

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BlueSpotinAL  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:38:58am

re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth

here’s a kitten. I think we could all use one right now…

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and you another hug. {{BWS}}

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jaunte  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:39:37am
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Skip Intro  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:40:09am

re: #398 HappyWarrior

I bet that got Rush hard since Rush fantasizes about himself.

You’re not the titular head of the conservative movement, Rush - you’re the polynoidal cyst.

- Bilabial Fricative

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stpaulbear  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:41:04am

re: #402 The Vicious Babushka

Steve Crowder is fapping to Carly so hard.

Unfortunately, so was the NYT this morning. Sigh.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:41:14am

oh, and this one:

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Tigger2  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:42:07am

re: #382 stpaulbear

My dad and sisters liked horses so we boarded a couple at a low-rent stable near our house. I only rode a few times, but the last time I was on the horse with a friend behind me, the horse bolted for the stable and tried to knock us off by nearly sideswiping a tree. We both leaned away from the tree and fell off the horse onto the gravel driveway, but luckily neither of us was hurt. I have no love for horses. I DO love my 300cc scooter.

I love horses and bikes you just have to show both of them respect or you’re in trouble.

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retired cynic  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:42:28am

re: #407 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Don’t hit, don’t hit!”

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Jenner7  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:43:30am

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

I was listening to a local radio show this morning and they played Jeb’s sound bite and not one person called him on it. Amazing how they forget what is right in front of them.

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Skip Intro  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:43:34am

re: #404 jaunte

She was steely-eyed in her prevarication. She was relentless in her determination to launch pure crapola into the stratosphere. She smiled rarely. She glowered effectively. The woman stares daggers better than anyone I’ve ever seen. And, on many occasions, she lied her ass off with a formidable brand of armored certitude. If you eliminate “telling the truth” from the assessment, Carly Fiorina was every bit the winner she is universally acclaimed to be this morning.

- Charles Pierce

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jaunte  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:43:50am

re: #407 Backwoods_Sleuth

Looks like Dr. Carson is considering how long it will take him to get sterile again.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:43:57am

re: #393 Varek Raith

Limbaugh: Watching GOP Debate Was Like “Watching 11 Rush Limbaughs”

Oh, OK, so we won’t be hearing in November 2016 about How comes they didn’t nominate really truly severely conservative candidate like I wanted???!?!?!

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makeitstop  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:44:47am

re: #401 Backwoods_Sleuth

The most awkward high five.

I think Jeb! hurt his hand doing that.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:44:50am

re: #404 jaunte

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REminds me of how Romney “won” the first presidential debate by going against everything he ran on to get the nomination in the first place.

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b_sharp  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:45:20am

re: #383 HappyWarrior

You have no idea how much that one pisses me off. I was browsing the debate discussion last night. I am tired of vaccines, which as you, I, and everyone else here know do a ton of good being scapegoated for autism. Now living with HFA isn’t always the most easy thing- I have difficulties with social interaction, I have worse handwriting than your average high school freshman, and I get a little obsessive but I am tired of my condition being used to bash something that has saved countless lives. Autism isn’t “more common” because of vaccines, we know about autism more and it’s easier to diagnose it now. I am certain that had I been born in 2007 instead of 1987, I would have had my Asperger’s detected earlier.

I’m certain that if I were not born in 1955 I would have been diagnosed and trained in coping skills that would have improved my childhood immensely.

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Kragar  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:45:21am
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makeitstop  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:45:21am

re: #402 The Vicious Babushka

Steve Crowder is fapping to Carly so hard.

…and ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww….

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:47:17am

re: #416 b_sharp

I’m certain that if I were not born in 1955 I would have been diagnosed and trained in coping skills that would have improved my childhood immensely.

Me too. IT sometimes gets me down at times but I gotta keep on moving on.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:49:45am

re: #394 blueraven

Just for you.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:51:00am

re: #420 WhatEVs

Just for you.

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The majority of the American people support SSM, I don’t see them acknowledging that. The fact is we the people do not set foreign policy.

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b_sharp  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:52:18am

Interesting.

LGF blows up in Chrome, comes back and is back to being speedy.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:52:23am

re: #395 KGxvi

Who is actually left on the bench for the GOP that would be acceptable to the base and have a reasonable chance of being competitive in the general? Cheney would be acceptable to the base but would test the crazification factor in the general. Huntsman might be able to win the general but he worked for Obama and now favors gay marriage, so he’s not acceptable to the base. Romney? (I’ll wait while you laugh it off). Susana Martinez could possibly be interesting, but she doesn’t want to repeal the ACA and isn’t opposed to Common Core, so that wouldn’t get her out of the general. A late stage candidate isn’t coming, it’s going to be one of these clowns - unless against all possible odds we end up with a brokered convention and a compromise candidate appears.

I totally get what you’re saying but if you think about it, the base might find any of them squishy (honestly, all but the biggest assholes are to them!) but every one of them (other than Romney) has no crazy baggage from these insane debates. I think the 47% will follow Rmoney for life, which is why I left him off.

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Kragar  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:53:25am
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b_sharp  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:53:25am

Holy crap! What is that big yellow orb in the sky I see suddenly?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:55:26am

So now that I got a steady paycheck, I decided to upgrade my ancestry.com account which includes acess to old newspapers. Found out that my great great grandfather was part of a German-American organization opposed to any prohibition. Woot.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:56:35am

Hello, Lizards.

So, a little Czech news. First, a B-52 Stratofortress from 370th Bomb Wing has arrived here in Ostrava to be a star in this weekend’s NATO Days air show:

ceskenoviny.cz

And Prague’s Klementium has been named as ‘the world’s most beautiful library’:

praguepost.com

Granted, it was the Bored Panda website that named it as such, but hey…..it’s something.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:57:29am

re: #420 WhatEVs

Just for you.

What about all the side agreements not part of this deal??????!?? I heard all about on Fox News truth!!!

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wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:58:15am

re: #424 Kragar

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Forget it, Jake, it’s NRO.

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jaunte  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:58:58am
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jaunte  Sep 17, 2015 • 10:59:50am

Sorry, bad paste; reload for the PP tweet.

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KGxvi  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:02:56am

re: #423 WhatEVs

I don’t think Romney would make it to 47% if he had a second shot - not if Romney 2016 looked anything like Romney 2008. Then again, in a potential Clinton-Romney election, 47% isn’t out of bounds since turnout would be somewhere around 100 (people, not percent, and he’s probably got 47 family members who would vote for him).

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:07:07am

SO HAPPY THIS ASSHOLE IS GOING DOWN IN FLAMES==>

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:07:24am

The question stems from Trump’s appearance earlier this month on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, in which he confused Iran’s Quds Force, a special forces unit within the country’s Revolutionary Guard, with the Kurds in Iraq.

Tapper framed the question around Sen. Marco Rubio’s recent criticism of Trump over the gaffe. “If you don’t know the answer to these questions, then you are not going to be able to serve as commander and chief,” Rubio said earlier this month.

How’d Trump deal with Tapper’s question? After all, confusing and mispronouncing foreign names was a standard criticism that dogged George W. Bush throughout his presidency. But Trump? Nah, he’s not worried. First, he boasted about how Hewitt—a co-moderator of the CNN debate—had since apologized and said that “Donald Trump is maybe the best interview anywhere that he’s ever done.”

“I will say this though,” Trump continued, “Hugh was giving me name after name—Arab name, Arab name, Arab—and there are few people anywhere, ANYWHERE, that would have known those names. I think he was reading them off a sheet.”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:09:44am

re: #434 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think Arabs would know those names… Oh, wait. Trump meant PEOPLE. Never mind then!

/

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:10:06am

re: #433 The Vicious Babushka

SO HAPPY THIS ASSHOLE IS GOING DOWN IN FLAMES==>

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He really needs to be sent in a time machine to work as a non-union laborer. Preferably a coal mine.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:10:37am

re: #434 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Just the kind of know-nothing bullshit that the GOP base loves.

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gocart mozart  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:11:18am

re: #286 The Vicious Babushka

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:11:48am

re: #437 HappyWarrior

He really needs to be sent in a time machine to work as a non-union laborer. Preferably a coal mine.

He could work at the Triangle Shirtwaist.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:12:52am

re: #437 HappyWarrior

He really needs to be sent in a time machine to work as a non-union laborer. Preferably a coal mine.

He really needs to work in any job that isn’t government for a while. Some little job he had after he dropped out of college is hardly enough to understand anything about real people who aren’t sucking Koch.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:13:28am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:13:33am

re: #440 The Vicious Babushka

He could work at the Triangle Shirtwaist.

That works too.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:13:50am

re: #441 WhatEVs

He really needs to work in any job that isn’t government for a while. Some little job he had after he dropped out of college is hardly enough to understand anything about real people who aren’t sucking Koch.

Exactly.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:13:53am

re: #438 HappyWarrior

Just the kind of know-nothing bullshit that the GOP base loves.

Ah, I remember when On The Job learnin’ was a bad thing. Obama wasn’t ready on Day 1. But two people who have never been in any government position are now clearly qualified to be POTUS.

Cripes. Pretzel logic.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:14:02am

re: #442 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Hahhaha sucks to be you Scotty.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:14:20am

re: #445 WhatEVs

Ah, I remember when On The Job learnin’ was a bad thing. Obama wasn’t ready on Day 1. But two people who have never been in any government position are now clearly qualified to be POTUS.

Cripes. Pretzel logic.

Uz-beki-beki-stan.

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wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:14:57am
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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:15:27am

re: #445 WhatEVs

Ah, I remember when On The Job learnin’ was a bad thing. Obama wasn’t ready on Day 1. But two people who have never been in any government position are now clearly qualified to be POTUS.

Cripes. Pretzel logic.

Every President who has never been President before has to learn “On The Job”

Being a Governor of a state is not the same thing as being POTUS.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:15:53am

I think it would be a neat idea to bolt IBM’s WATSON up to do a real-time bullshit analysis during the next GOP debates. I don’t think it would be that difficult to program WATSON to recognize the political lexicon, considering that it already handles medical texts.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:17:44am

re: #442 Backwoods_Sleuth

wants to light more money on fire. OK

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:17:50am

re: #449 The Vicious Babushka

Every President who has never been President before has to learn “On The Job”

Being a Governor of a state is not the same thing as being POTUS.

and nor is running a business despite what all these clowns say.

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jaunte  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:18:39am

Money to burn.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:18:56am

What an utter putz

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HappyWarrior  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:20:12am

re: #454 The Vicious Babushka

What an utter putz

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He really goes out of his way to be a condescending asshole. I hope he has a gay child who dates a liberal Muslim.

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lawhawk  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:20:49am

re: #449 The Vicious Babushka

Every President who has never been President before has to learn “On The Job”

Being a Governor of a state is not the same thing as being POTUS.

There’s learning curves, and then there’s learning curves.

Governors have executive branch experience, that can translate to the WH - dealing with legislators, pushing agendas through the legislature, and using the bully pulpit.

A congressman or legislator doesn’t have the same skills, but should at a minimum understand the legislative process, Schoolhouse Rock 101 on how a bill becomes a law, etc.

A business person has no such experience and would therefore have the steepest learning curve.

So, all those GOP outsiders like Carly, Trump, and Carson have less translatable experience. These are people who think that they can always get their way if you just shout loudly and berate others into submission. They’ll find that it doesn’t work that way. And nothing we’ve seen to date should give anyone the confidence that they would be good as president. They lack character and judgment to be president.

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WhatEVs  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:25:15am

re: #449 The Vicious Babushka

Every President who has never been President before has to learn “On The Job”

Being a Governor of a state is not the same thing as being POTUS.

I would rather see a Governor be elected POTUS than a “business person” who knows has limited knowledge of the sausage making that goes on in DC. Carson and Trump would be a disaster for that reason alone (aside from their craziness. I wouldn’t want to see a leftie with no government experience elected any more than either of these two idiots.)

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:31:58am

Good morning lizards,

Been dealing with a boat load of fun (not) PC issues. For a long time, on random occasions the video would crash hard and I’d have to do a reboot. at one point I lost onboard video as well as video from my video card and even when it did come up (after taking it in for service at Fry’s) my boot sector for windows was toast. Ended up replacing the motherboard, the processor, the video card and one hard drive then installing windows 10 .

Fast forward a week and all seemed well then boom, BSOD in windows 10. Fortunately the video didn’t crash and the system rebooted creating a dump file. Turns out i had some corrupted memory somewhere. So back to Fry’s, loaded the new mobo with 32 gigs of Patriot VIPER memory @2133mhz.

So now I literally have a brand new computer:

Memory: 32 gigs Patriot Viper @2133mhz.
CPU: Intel i5 quadcore (don’t know the model off the top of my head) @3.16ghz
Mobo: MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Motherboard
GPU: nVidia GTX 980ti w/6gigs on board memory.

and 2 4TB hard drives.

The only thing not new is the DVD drive since I replaced the case and had just replaced the power supply with an 800 watt a while back.

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danarchy  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:35:52am

re: #458 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Good morning lizards,

Been dealing with a boat load of fun (not) PC issues. For a long time, on random occasions the video would crash hard and I’d have to do a reboot. at one point I lost onboard video as well as video from my video card and even when it did come up (after taking it in for service at Fry’s) my boot sector for windows was toast. Ended up replacing the motherboard, the processor, the video card and one hard drive then installing windows 10 .

Fast forward a week and all seemed well then boom, BSOD in windows 10. Fortunately the video didn’t crash and the system rebooted creating a dump file. Turns out i had some corrupted memory somewhere. So back to Fry’s, loaded the new mobo with 32 gigs of Patriot VIPER memory @2133mhz.

So now I literally have a brand new computer:

Memory: 32 gigs Patriot Viper @2133mhz.
CPU: Intel i5 quadcore (don’t know the model off the top of my head) @3.16ghz
Mobo: MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Motherboard
GPU: nVidia GTX 980ti w/6gigs on board memory.

and 2 4TB hard drives.

The only thing not new is the DVD drive since I replaced the case and had just replaced the power supply with an 800 watt a while back.

Sounds like you need an SSD drive to really complete the picture. If you are going to rebuild your machine may as well go all out :)

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:36:06am

re: #86 Dark_Falcon

Corrected. Engaging in a political debate requires the ability to lie with confidence Which party you’re in doesn’t change that.

But MOM!!!!!!!

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BlueSpotinAL  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:36:21am

re: #432 KGxvi

I don’t think Romney would make it to 47% if he had a second shot - not if Romney 2016 looked anything like Romney 2008. Then again, in a potential Clinton-Romney election, 47% isn’t out of bounds since turnout would be somewhere around 100 (people, not percent, and he’s probably got 47 family members who would vote for him).

Because takers now up to 54% /////

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Tigger2  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:43:28am

re: #454 The Vicious Babushka

What an utter putz

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 17, 2015 • 11:57:57am

re: #459 danarchy

Sounds like you need an SSD drive to really complete the picture. If you are going to rebuild your machine may as well go all out :)

I considered it but they are out of my price range for the 4tb size.

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TedStriker  Sep 17, 2015 • 12:08:54pm

re: #16 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Snow in the summer? Global warming my ass.

Weather (as opposed to climate), how does it work?

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TedStriker  Sep 17, 2015 • 12:16:12pm

re: #123 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

really, a CASA volunteer or even a social worker would be able to do it. Just to make sure the child is treated with respect and is not made to feel “less than”.

Given what we found out about Ahmed’s father and his debate against “Christian” extremists there and the fact that the police had knowledge of him, as well as the quote from that one officer upon seeing who is was that was brought to them for questioning, I have a feeling that the Irving PD didn’t really care about following the law or being civil.

They knew what they were doing and to whom and the city of Irving needs to pay dearly for it.

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palomino  Sep 17, 2015 • 2:20:55pm

re: #86 Dark_Falcon

Corrected. Engaging in a political debate requires the ability to lie with confidence Which party you’re in doesn’t change that.

You have no moral compass. You’re amoral…not a good thing. You’d have been a great Nixon Youth troop leader.


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